· TaraShea Nesbit has given her second novel, “Beheld,” to one such thing. Most people know something about the Mayflower and the English Puritans who Estimated Reading Time: 6 mins. · BEHELD. by TaraShea Nesbit ‧ RELEASE DATE: Ma. Ten years after founding the first Pilgrim settlement, the colonists are forced to address the strife that roils beneath their utopian dreams. It’s an August morning in the Plymouth colony, the year It’s been 10 years since a group arrived on the Mayflower to start life afresh, and today is a day of great anticipation: A fresh . Beheld breathes fresh life into a world grown still and murky beneath the scrim of legend—rife with intrigue, fractured by difference, marked by violence, and full of haunting images. With gorgeous, period-inflected prose, Nesbit takes us back to the earliest days of New England to look through the eyes and over the shoulders of historical characters both remembered and not.
Beheld is about a murder and a trial; it's also an intimate, personal portrait of love, desire, motherhood, and friendship. The novel reframes the story of the pilgrims in historically under-recorded voices, asking whose stories get told over time, who gets believed, and who gets punished. In the first pages of the novel, Alice Bradford is. "Beheld" by TaraShea Nesbit. Review by Seana Zimmer, adult services library assistant at the Hillsborough branch November and Thanksgiving give rise to thoughts of pilgrims and Native Americans. " Beheld " is set 10 years after the founding of Plymouth, so I thought it would be a seasonal read. I recognized a few famous names, like John. TaraShea Nesbit's puritans are passionate and vengeful and entrancing. Part mystery, part love story, beautifully told and meticulously researched, Beheld reanimates and complicates the mythologies of America's earliest settlers. I was sad when it ended.
Beheld – TaraShea Nesbit $ ISBN Beheld - TaraShea Nesbit quantity. Add to cart. SKU: Category: Books. Description Reviews (0). "A compelling new novel by TaraShea Nesbit, author of The Wives of Los Alamos, explores not only. TaraShea Nesbit has given her second novel, “Beheld,” to one such thing. Most people know something about the Mayflower and the English Puritans who founded the Plymouth Colony in
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