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In this, his first nonfiction book, novelist Pearl (The Dante Club) takes on a dramatic but minor incident in U.S. history and uses it to illuminate the complicated back and forth of relations between colonial-era settlers and Indigenous peoples. The incident is the July 14, 1776, abduction of three white teenage girls (one of them was Jemima Boone, daughter of frontiersman Daniel Boone) by five Shawnee and Cherokee men outside the colonial town of Boonesboro, along the Kentucky River. The abduction was part of a 20-year history of Cherokee and Sh...Log In or Sign Up to Read More