Flight of the Sparrow

A Novel of Early America

By: Amy Belding Brown

Narrated by: Heather Henderson

She suspects that she has changed too much to ever fit easily into English society again. The wilderness has now become her home. She can interpret the cries of birds. She has seen vistas that have stolen away her breath. She has learned to live in a new, free way…

Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1676. Even before Mary Rowlandson was captured by Indians on a winter day of violence and terror, she sometimes found herself in conflict with her rigid Puritan community. Now, her home destroyed, her children lost to her, she has been sold into the service of a powerful woman tribal leader and made a pawn in the ongoing bloody struggle between English settlers and native people. Battling cold, hunger, and exhaustion, Mary witnesses harrowing brutality but also unexpected kindness. To her confused surprise, she is drawn to her captors' open and straightforward way of life - a feeling further complicated by her attraction to a generous, protective English-speaking native known as James Printer. All her life, Mary has been taught to fear God, submit to her husband, and abhor Indians. Now, having lived on the other side of the forest, she begins to question the edicts that have guided her, torn between the life she knew and the wisdom the natives have shown her.

Based on the compelling true narrative of Mary Rowlandson, Flight of the Sparrow is an evocative tale that transports the listener to a little-known time in early America and explores the real meanings of freedom, faith, and acceptance.

©2014 Amy Belding Brown (P)2014 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Simple

The story was simple - not very deep in drama, emotion or character development. Not sure I'd recommend unless you want something very light.

Great read and it was free!

Free with audible plus. This book was so much better than I anticipated. I highly recommend this one.

Indian/White Conflict

graphic violent scenes. Just another historic novel of the mistreatment of the American Indians. The story was good but it lacked a true climax. I was a little disappointed in the ending.
Seemed like the end was a ‘let down’.

I enjoyed the book narrator very good. I read/listen to many books and often read them more than once but i do not want to read this one a second time. It did hold my interest until the end i finished the narration in 2 sittings.

Good Story. Difficult narrator

Would have been a better book to read myself. Couldn't get past the narrator's performance

Poignantly dignified

This historical account is one of the best I've read! Thank you very much! The narrator does an excellent
job of bringing all of the characters to life.