Bibliograph

Beheld, a novel, TaraShea Nesbit

Type

Label

Beheld, a novel, TaraShea Nesbit

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Beheld

Oclc number

1090393044

Responsibility statement

TaraShea Nesbit

Sub title

a novel

Summary

Ten years after the Mayflower pilgrims arrived on rocky, unfamiliar soil, Plymouth is not the land its residents had imagined. Seemingly established on a dream of religious freedom, in reality the town is led by fervent puritans who prohibit the residents from living, trading, and worshipping as they choose. By the time an unfamiliar ship, bearing new colonists, appears on the horizon one summer morning, Anglican outsiders have had enough. With gripping, immersive details and exquisite prose, TaraShea Nesbit refreames the story of the pilgrims in the previously unheard voices of two women of very different status and means. She evokes a vivid, ominous Plymouth, populated by famous and unknown characters alike, each with conflicting desires and questionable behavior. Suspenseful and beautifully wrought, Beheld is about a murder and a trial, and the motivations - personal and political - that cause people to act in unsavory ways. It is also an intimate portrait of love, motherhood, and friendship that asks: Whose stories get told over time, who gets believed - and, subsequently, who gets punished?

Target audience

adult

Classification