The caged graves

Hardcover, 329 pages

English language

Published 2013 by Clarion Books.

ISBN:
978-0-547-86853-0
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Returning to her hometown of Catawissa, Pennsylvania, in 1867 to marry a man she has never met, seventeen-year-old Verity Boone gets caught up in the a mystery surrounding the graves of her mother and aunt and a dangerous hunt for Revolutionary-era gold.

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This was a really fascinating book, and the fact that it was based on two actually caged Graves of two sisters-in-law who really did die within days of each other is much more interesting and of course there would be no way to know exactly what happened so this seems a very good way to suppose what could potentially have happened in at least one universe and I think the the author does an excellent job both of holding reader interest and attention, as well as of giving some very salient social critiques. There's a good strong Young woman who is the protagonist who must basically come of age, returning to her original town, and we also make a little bit of reparation for the disdain that Native Americans have faced all the time and so the author has done an excellent job and it wasn't just shoe horned in. …

Subjects

  • Murder
  • Love
  • Buried treasure
  • Arranged marriage
  • Community life
  • History
  • Fiction

Places

  • Pennsylvania