In the spring of 1676, a ship full of English immigrants sets sail across the Atlantic. On board is a young woman named Catherwood Lyte and her new husband, Gabriel -- bound for a new life in the New World. The passage is rough and the travellers afraid... but they eventually reach the port of New York in the opening of a new short work of historical fiction by writer Marly Youmans (YOO-munz). (Stations: Catherwood is published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.)
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