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A review by angelica87
Weetamoo: Heart of the Pocassets, Massachusetts - Rhode Island, 1653 by Patricia Clark Smith
3.0
I do like how the author started the book by saying that unlike the other girls profiled in the Royal Diaries, Weetamoo never would have written a diary. A lot of it is written in a way that makes it seem that Weetamoo is just thinking, and I wish that the entirety of the novel was written that way.
The story follows Weetamoo, the eldest daughter of the Saschem (leader) of the Poccasats. She has been told that patience is a virtue that she needs to work on and as such she spends a great deal of time thinking about what is going on and asking the spirits for patience. She has to navigate in her father's shadow in regards to the dealings with the people at Plymouth, all the while she is trying to understand what it means to grow up, and what she plans to do once she is old enough to marry. There are some struggles that she has to go through, her temper and her impatience get the better of her, and she has to help her mother and family grieve when their younger sister dies of an apparent heart defect. In the end, she learns a great deal and know what it is going to take for her to be a great leader.
As always, the back of the book is filled with actual historical information and I was intrigued to know that while Weetamoo's father's generation was able to deal fairly with the Europeans, that tenuous relationship broke down by the time that she came of age.
The story follows Weetamoo, the eldest daughter of the Saschem (leader) of the Poccasats. She has been told that patience is a virtue that she needs to work on and as such she spends a great deal of time thinking about what is going on and asking the spirits for patience. She has to navigate in her father's shadow in regards to the dealings with the people at Plymouth, all the while she is trying to understand what it means to grow up, and what she plans to do once she is old enough to marry. There are some struggles that she has to go through, her temper and her impatience get the better of her, and she has to help her mother and family grieve when their younger sister dies of an apparent heart defect. In the end, she learns a great deal and know what it is going to take for her to be a great leader.
As always, the back of the book is filled with actual historical information and I was intrigued to know that while Weetamoo's father's generation was able to deal fairly with the Europeans, that tenuous relationship broke down by the time that she came of age.