The White

Deborah Larsen

earliest edition we have, 2002 Vintage, 2003 240 pages

"This is the voice of Mary Jemison, who, in 1758, at the age of sixteen, was taken by a Shawnee raiding party from her home near what would become Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. In this intimate reimagining of her life story, Mary endures the brutal scalpings of her parents and siblings and is given to two Seneca sisters who treat her as their own - a symbolic replacement for the brother they lost to the white colonists....

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The White paperback · 2003 · Random House, Inc. · 9780965044226
The White edition · 2003 · Vintage · 240 pages · 9780375712890
The white edition · 2002 · A.A. Knopf · 219 pages

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