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Literary Orphan Finds a Home in the Copperfield Review

11/10/2012

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"When six-year-old Clair Martin is found parentless and penniless in a 1859 Utah Territory mining town by a member of the Mormon brethren who takes her safely into the fold, one might be prompted to note that God works in mysterious ways. But Clair doesn’t see it that way. Raised for the next twelve years within the patriarchy of the Latter-Day Saints and schooled in the home skills of cooking, cleaning, and sewing, Clair is destined to become a sister-wife during Brigham Young’s colonizing heyday in spite of a rose-colored “mark of sin” that spreads across her left cheek and down her neck. It is only Clair herself who stops it from being so.

"In her second novel, Barbara K. Richardson brings us in the form of Clair Martin one of the strongest and most complex female characters since Charlotte Bronte gave us Jane Eyre . . . 

Read the entire review. The Copperfield Review is devoted to historical fiction.
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