01581cam a2200301 i 4500 604348575 TxAuBib 20220907120000.0 130917s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2013035277 9780451466693 pbk. $15.00 0451466691 pbk. $15.00 (OCoLC)858610731 TxAuBib rda Brown, Amy Belding. Flight of the sparrow : a novel of early America / Amy Belding Brown. New York, New York : New American Library, [2014] ©2014. 331 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes a readers guide. A historical novel based on the life of Mary Rowlandson. Even before she was captured by Indians on a winter day of violence and terror, Mary Rowlandson sometimes found herself in conflict with her rigid Puritan community. Now, her home destroyed, her children lost to her, she has been sold into the service of a powerful woman tribal leader and made a pawn in the ongoing bloody struggle between English settlers and native people. Battling cold, hunger, and exhaustion, Mary witnesses harrowing brutality but also unexpected kindness. To her confused surprise, she is drawn to her captors' open and straightforward way of life. 20220907. Rowlandson, Mary White, approximately 1635-1711 Fiction. Indian captivities Massachusetts Fiction.