Daughters of the Deer - Danielle Daniel
Category: Novel
Narrator: Tyrone Savage
Tags: Novel, Historical Fiction, Adults, Literature
NATIONAL BESTSELLER, In this haunting and groundbreaking historical novel, Danielle Daniel imagines the lives of women in the Algonquin territories of the 1600s, a story inspired by her familys ancestral link to a young girl who was murdered by French settlers., 1657. Marie, a gifted healer of the Deer Clan, does not want to marry the green-eyed soldier from France who has asked for her hand. But her people are threatened by disease and starvation and need help against the Iroquois and their English allies if they are to survive. When her chief begs her to accept the white mans proposal, she cannot refuse him, and sheds her deerskin tunic for a borrowed blue wedding dress to become Pierres bride., 1675. Jeanne, Maries oldest child, is seventeen, neither white nor Algonquin, caught between worlds. Caught by her own desires, too. Her heart belongs to a girl named Josephine, but soon her father will have to find her a husband or be forced to pay a hefty fine to the French crown. Among her
