The Red Heart
by JAMES ALEXANDER Thom
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Author: JAMES ALEXANDER ThomEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1998-09-28
ISBN: 0345364716
Number of pages: 544
Publisher: Ballantine Books
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- ISBN13: 9780345364715
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Book Reviews of The Red Heart
Book Review: A Tear Jerker
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the second book I've read by Thom and I found it very enjoyable, despite the saddening subject throughout the entire book. The time and place comes to life and the characters are vivid. You really feel heart wrenched as you read this book, first for the Slocums and their lost relative, then for the natives who adopted Frances and made there her own. Reading any novel that discusses Native Americans causes me great sadness, since the stories of their lives after European invasion is nothing but murder, rape, thievery and displacement. In all honesty, the natives should have killed us all off in the mid 1600's when they had the chance. The Natives are good people, as the natives in the story are, and they deserved the peace and land that were rightfully theirs. This is a good book, but keep some tissues nearby.
Summary of The Red Heart
The Slocum family of Northeastern Pennsylvania are the best of the white settlers, peace-loving Quakers who believe that the Indians hold the Light of God inside. It is from this good-hearted family that Frances is abducted during the Revolutionary war.
As the child's terror subsides, she is slowly drawn into the sacred work and beliefs of her adoptive mother and of all the women of these Eastern tribes. Frances becomes Maconakwa, the Little Bear Woman of the Miami Indians. Then, long after the Indians are beaten and their last hope, Tecumseh, is killed, the Slocums hear word of their long-lost daughter and head out to Indiana to meet their beloved Frances. But for Maconakwa, it is a moment of truth, the test of whether her heart is truly a red one.
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