The story itself had some exciting moments especially when it looked like the Brickmans had caught up to them. He mentions in the author’s note that he envisioned this story to be another Huckleberry Finn.
The setting of a good portion of the novel is set along the river Gilead, which the author explored personally. Sister Eve was an Evangelical healer they met along the way who offers to help them, and it’s not obvious whether she is on their side or not. They meet good and bad people along the way and it was hard to see them have to grow up so quickly. The children are abused and overworked and mistreated.Įach of the children has a personal struggle to manage and along the way, they have encounters that have them questioning their assumptions. It’s the early 1930s and there is great poverty and times are hard. Louis to escape a particularly cruel headmistress at an all Indian, boarding school that’s corrupt. They are four orphans making their way by canoe to St.
The four main characters were Odie (Odysseus), Albert, Mose, and Emmy. Provenance: I purchased this book – October 2019.
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