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Starred Review. Nine years in the making, Morrow's richly detailed, cerebral tale of rationality versus superstitious bigotry is set in late-17th-century London and colonial New England, a time when everyday actions were judged according to the rigid Parliamentary Witchcraft Act and suspect women were persecuted for alleged acts of sorcery. Inquisitive, "kinetic" Jennet Stearne, daughter of militant Witchfinder Gen. Walter Stearne, witnesses this pursuit of "Satanists" up close when her beloved maternal Aunt Isobel Mowbray, a philosopher and scientist, is put on trial and burned at the stake for her progressive ideas. Thirteen-year-old Jennet and her younger brother, Dunstan, immigrate with their now-infamous father to Massachusetts, where Walter (disgraced in England for executing his propertied sister-in-law) puts his "witchfinding" expertise into savage overdrive at the Salem witch trials. Abducted in a raid, Jennet spends seven years captive to the Algonquin Nimacook, until she's freed by and married to Boston postmaster Tobias Crompton. Years later, after a divorce (!), she becomes smitten (and enlightened) by a young Benjamin Franklin. For a metafictional touch to this intrepid, impeccably researched epic (after Blameless in Abaddon), Newton's Principia Mathematica speaks intermittently, its jaunty historical and critical commentary knitted cleverly into the narrative. This tour-de-force of early America bears a buoyant humor to lighten its macabre load. (Mar.)
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From Booklist
*Starred Review* It is 1688 in England. Alas, witch-hunting has become unfashionable, but that doesn't prevent "master pricker" Walter Stearne from pursuing his God-given duty. When he's exiled to Massachusetts after condemning his wealthy sister-in-law, Isobel Mowbray, to burn at the stake, his daughter, Jennet, sets out to abolish the parliamentary act that convicted her beloved aunt. Believing she'll find proof of witchcraft's nonexistence in Isaac Newton's writings, Jennet immediately begins schooling herself in scientific inquiry. Over the years, her quest for justice takes her from witch-obsessed Salem to an Algonquin village and later to colonial Philadelphia, where her partnership with young Ben Franklin strengthens both her resolve and her libido. Although steeped in period language and scholarship, the narrative never falters. Morrow's panoramic vision of the Enlightenment encompasses the ideology of that turbulent, transformative era, and his wry commentary--related through the sprightly voice of Newton's Principia Mathematica, speaking for itself--lightens the novel's tone without softening its message. This impeccably researched, highly ambitious novel--nine years in the writing--is a triumph of historical fiction. Sarah Johnson
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