At the end of Nathaniel Hawthornes classic novel The Scarlet Letter we knowthat Pearl the elfchild daughter of Hester Prynne is somewhere in Europecomfortable w... » 

At the end of Nathaniel Hawthornes classic novel The Scarlet Letter we knowthat Pearl the elfchild daughter of Hester Prynne is somewhere in Europecomfortable well set a mother herself now. But it could not have been easyfor her to arrive at such a place when she begins life as the bastard child ofa woman publicly humiliated again and again in an unrelentingly judgmentalPuritan world.With a brilliant and authentic sense of that time and place Deborah Noyesenvisions the path Pearl takes to make herself whole and to carve her place inthe New World. Beautifully written with boundless compassion Angel and Apostleis a heartrending and imaginative debut in which Noyes masterfully makesHawthornes character her own. «