Historical Fiction -- 4 stars
This is the story of John Billington, America's first convicted murderer. Told in the voices of two women--one a have, one a have not--the Plymouth colony faces the consequence of inequality and prejudice that breeds injustice in this nascent America. When one man holds the fate of your family in his hands, where do you turn? What do you do? ----- Forget the picture of happy little Pilgrims all living together in God loving harmony. This novel reminds us of the fate of the indentured servants who accompanied the Pilgrims on the Mayflower, and how the "godly" insured they were sentenced to second class citizenhood even after their indentured time had elapsed. In Ms. Nesbit's well researched novel, she has created a vivid telling of a piece of history long left out of our childhood history lessons, one where the buckles on those Pilgrim hats don't look quite so shiny.
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