{"id":13122,"date":"2022-04-27T09:40:01","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T15:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/?p=13122"},"modified":"2022-04-27T09:40:01","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T15:40:01","slug":"the-secret-life-of-mary-white-darkness-into-light-by-lenaye-marsten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/?p=13122","title":{"rendered":"The Secret Life of Mary White: Darkness Into Light by Lenaye Marsten"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A poignant exploration of the intricacies of personal growth, courage, and survival\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inspired by a true story from the 17th century Piscataqua region of New England, Marsten\u2019s affecting debut follows a woman\u2019s attempt to find refuge from her tragic reality. Young Mary White has inherited her grandmother\u2019s gift of healing. But with the fearful and ignorant in the town linking her healing craft to witchcraft and magic, Mary needs to tread carefully. Marsten\u2019s picture of the 17th century ignorance and cruelty includes disturbing accounts of violence, chauvinism, bigotry, and hatred for the unexplained. The gift of healing that runs in Mary\u2019s maternal family helps build a foreboding sense of the inevitable as the Whites are forced to reckon with harsh realities around them, among them the family\u2019s displacement, living in constant anxiety and fear, Mary\u2019s struggle to come to terms with people\u2019s distrust of her healing ability. Told in third-person omniscient voice, each chapter takes readers deep into the heart of Mary\u2019s dilemmas as she endures distrust, suspicion, intolerance, disparity, displacement, and violence. As Mary grapples with hatred and narrow-mindedness of people and whether remaining true to her duty as a gifted healer is worth the trouble (or is even possible), the narrative tosses readers through a series of dizzying revelations. The accounts of Mary\u2019s reckoning with her family history are poignant, and the details of her healing practices are sharply drawn and rooted in the era. Throughout, Marsten delves into themes of familial ties, friendship, love, compassion, grief, mortality, courage, resistance, and survival. A poignant and meticulously researched story of how a courageous woman coped with hatred and intolerance of the masses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Secret Life of Mary White: Darkness Into Light<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lenaye Marsten<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Buy now<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pub date October 9, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ISBN 979-8694118279<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Price $24.95 (USD) Hardcover, $16.99 Paperback, 7.94 Kindle edition<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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