Living Literature: Caleb's Crossing

Caleb’s Crossing is the 2012 Reading Across Rhode Island selection. Pulitzer Prize winning author Geraldine Brooks wove the novel around this fact: In 1665, a young man from Martha’s Vineyard became the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College. The narrator of the story is Bethia Mayfield, who lives in the tiny settlement of Great Harbor amid a small band of pioneers and Puritans. 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. This two-person readers’ theatre presentation by Living Literature is based on scenes from the book. Living Literature has been celebrating the written word through readers' theatre-style performances of non-dramatic writing since 1996. Please register for this program.