One of Book Riot's top 100 Must-Read Books of American Historical
Fiction!
Nancy Turner burst onto the literary scene with her hugely popular
novels These Is My Words, Sarah's Quilt, and The Star Garden. Now,
Turner has written the novel she was born to write, this exciting and
heartfelt story of a woman struggling to find herself during the
tumultuous years preceding the American Revolution.
The year is 1729, and Resolute Talbot and her siblings are captured by
pirates, taken from their family in Jamaica, and brought to the New
World. Resolute and her sister are sold into slavery in colonial New
England and taught the trade of spinning and weaving. When Resolute
finds herself alone in Lexington, Massachusetts, she struggles to find
her way in a society that is quick to judge a young woman without a
family. As the seeds of rebellion against England grow, Resolute is torn
between following the rules and breaking free. Resolute's talent at the
loom places her at the center of an incredible web of secrecy that
helped drive the American Revolution. Heart-wrenching, brilliantly
written, and packed to the brim with adventure, My Name is Resolute is
destined to be an instant classic.