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In her amazing books Into the Wilderness and Dawn on the Distant Shoreline, award-winning copy writer Sara Donati deftly captured the vast, untamed wilderness of late-eighteenth-century New York and the tests and triumphs of the Bonner family. Now Donati takes on a new and often overlooked chapter in our nation’s past—and in the life of the spirited Bonners—as their oldest child, the brave and beautiful Hannah, comes old with difficult that will change her forever. Masterfully advised, this passionate account is a moving tribute to a resilient, exciting family and a people poised at the brink of a fresh hundred years.
It is the springtime of 1802, and the community of Paradise is still reeling from the typhoid epidemic of the previous summer. Elizabeth and Nathaniel Bonner have lost their two-year-old child, Hannah’s half sibling Robbie, nevertheless they have difficulties on as always: the men in the forests, the twins Lily and Daniel in Elizabeth’s institution, and Hannah as a doctor in training, apprenticed to Richard Todd. Hannah is descended from healers on both factors—one Scots grandmother and one Mohawk—and her reputation as an experienced healer in her own right keeps growing.
After an extended night spent attending to a labor and birth, Elizabeth and Hannah come across an escaped slave concealing on the mountain. She calling herself Selah Voyager, and she actually is looking for Interest Freeman—a ex - slave herself, one of the community’s wisest women and Elizabeth’s closest friend. The Bonners take Selah, desperately unwell, to Lake in the Clouds to look after her, and with that simple act they are really drawn into the key life that Interest and Galileo Freeman and their increased children have been leading for almost a decade. The Bonners can do what they must to safeguard the Freemans, just as Hannah will protect her patient, who presents more than one kind of task. For any bounty hunter is afoot—Hannah’s child years friend and first love, Liam Kirby.
While Elizabeth and Nathaniel undertake a treacherous quest through the infinite forests to bring Selah to safe practices in the north, Hannah embarks on an extremely different quest to New-York City, with two goals: to learn the secrets of vaccination against smallpox, an illness that threatens Paradise, and to find out what she can about Liam’s immediate past and what induced him to change so significantly from the youngster she once cherished. The obstacles she encounters as a woman and a Mohawk make her confront questions long averted about her put in place the world.
Those questions follow her back again to Paradise, where she discovers that the medical miracle she brings with her won't get rid of prejudice or superstition, nor did it solve the challenge of slavery. No earlier have the Bonners started to rebound from other deficits—old and new—than they end up confronted by more than one old opponent in a challenge that will test the strength of their love for just one another. Hannah encounters the decision she has always dreaded: will she make a life for herself in a white world, or among her mother’s people?
