In this week's giveaway, you have a chance to win "Caleb's Crossing," the new novel by Geraldine Brooks. She received a Pulitzer Prize for "March," and great praise -- and tons of book club support -- with "People of the Book," so this selection has great promise.
As she did with those books, Brooks takes us back in time, to the 17th Century, imagining the story of first Native American to graduate from Harvard College. Here's how her website describes it: "The narrator of Caleb's Crossing is Bethia Mayfield, growing up in the tiny settlement of Great Harbor amid a small band of pioneers and Puritans. Restless and curious, she yearns after an education that is closed to her by her sex. As often as she can, she slips away to explore the island's glistening beaches and observe its native Wampanoag inhabitants. At twelve, she encounters Caleb, the young son of a chieftain, and the two forge a tentative, secret friendship that draws each into the alien world of the other."
I noticed on Brooks' website that she spends her time shuttling between homes in Martha's Vineyard and Sydney -- two of my favorite places. Could there be a better life? For a chance to win, leave a comment answering this question: Which two places would you like to shuttle between? Anyone who says Baltimore and Ocean City is automatically disqualified for overbearing provincialism.
Meanwhile, let's congratulate Sarah, who won last week's giveaway, "The Tiger's Wife" by Tea Obreht.