Tuesday, September 29, 2015

The Memory Weaver - Jane Kirkpatrick

This book is a historical fiction revolving around the life of Eliza Spalding Warren, who was just 10 when she was involved in the Cayuse massacre in which Marcus and Narcissa Whitman were both killed.  Because of Eliza's fluency in Sahaptin, she was able to translate for the captives, and may have been instrumental in keeping a group of them alive.  This book jumps in when she is 14, and her mother has recently died.

In this book, Eliza meets the man who is to be her future husband, Mr. Andrew Warren.  A few years later, they elope together, and succeed in completely alienating her father from her.  Although Andrew is known to be a gambler and drunkard, their marriage and life together seems to go surprisingly well.  I found this a little hard to believe.  However, Andrew does end up drunk and with a broken leg at one point in the story.

The most fascinating part of this story, I found, is the way it describes both Eliza, and her friend Nancy (also a survivor of the massacre) and their way of "dealing with" the trauma that happened when they were both children.  This part was the most believable to me.

I received this book free from Revell Reads (Baker Publishing Group) in exchange for an honest review.

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