Caleb’s Crossing by Geraldine Brooks

Brooks writes good, well-researched historical fiction and this book is no exception. If you want drama and romance, her books may not be the ones for you. Brooks focuses on really setting the reader in a specific time and place. Caleb’s Crossing takes place around the 1660’s, around what is now Martha’s Vineyard. Her heroine,…

The End of Innocence by Allegra Jordan

I really enjoyed this historical novel about World War I. It focuses on a very specific group: the lives of Harvard and Radcliffe students at the outbreak of World War I. Helen Brooks is an upper-class student attending Radcliffe in the fall of 1914. She’s embarrassed by her mother, an activist most recently arrested for…