Probably the best book I have read this summer. PLEASE read this book. All English 11 teachers should read this one. Definitely.
Katherine Howe tells the story of Connie Goodwin, a Harvard doctoral student, who spends a summer in her grandmother's primitive house (in hopes of getting it ready to sell); instead, she becomes involved in research that takes her on a journey into the lives of those accused of witchcraft during Salem witch trials.
This insight into the accused is quiet interesting and eye-opening....oh, the cruelty that lasted for months.
Howe is a grand writer...just go ahead and plan a day for reading or plan to stay up late finishing this one! Her characters are real (really...shhhhh! even the witches...or physicks as they may be called), her setting is alive, and she showed me through this novel one of the best reasons for always writing. Interested in hearing more about this? Then please visit my blog here.
Besides an awesome use of vocabulary (I really like that for our upper level readers), she illustrated through this novel her avid knowledge as a researcher and portrayed this in such a great narrative format.
I wish I could recommend another novel by this author, but this one is her first. And a very good first one, it is!
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