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A fictional retelling of the abduction of Cynthia Parker, who was stolen by Comanches as a child & lived with them for 24 years, first as a slave, then as a chief's wife.
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《学校图书馆杂志》(School Library Journal)书评
Gr 7 Up-- In December 1860, a 34-year-old woman, Naduah--kidnapped 25 years earlier by Comanche Indians--was ``rescued'' by sol diers and returned to the white family who recognized her as their niece/sister/cousin Cynthia Ann Parker. Where the Broken Heart Still Beats tells her story. Naduah-Cynthia Ann was a real person, and Meyer skillfully interweaves fact and fiction in her book, alter nating third-person reminiscences of Naduah's life among the Comanche with journal entries by her 12-year-old cousin, Lucy (the most sen sitive and understanding of the Parkers). The struggle between the two ways of life is long and, in the end, unsuccessful. Both points of view, the Parkers' frustration at Cynthia Ann's reluctance to be ``civilized'' and Naduah's long ing for her Indian family and customs, are pre sented believably and without editorializing. The setting, Texas at the beginning of the Civil War, is smoothly integrated into the story; the captivating characters are well drawn. Meyer includes a map, a bibliography, and an author's note in which she discusses her research and ties loose ends together. Unaccountably miss ing is the information that Naduah-Cynthia Ann's son, Chief Quanah Parker, later located his mother's brother Silas and lived with the family for a time. This omission aside, Where the Broken Heart Still Beats is a fascinating look at the Comanche and their captives and will be enjoyed by teens who like historical fic tion and/or are interested in Native Americans and the West. --Ann W. Moore, formerly at Lane Road Library, Columbus, OH (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
《儿童读物杂志》(Horn Book)书评
Cynthia Ann Parker is the focus of this historical novel based on a small amount of existing documentation. Captured and raised by the Comanche, she became the mother of Quanah Parker, the famous warrior. The novel reads well, but the racist attitudes of the white settlers, expressed through a fictional diary attributed to Cynthia Ann's cousin Lucy, are disturbing. From HORN BOOK 1992, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus评论
A fictionalized biography of a Texas frontierswoman, captured by Comanches when she was nine and returned to her family 24 years later. Meyer uses the sketchy historical record as framework for an imaginative reconstruction of the last few years of Parker's life as virtual prisoner of her well-meaning relatives, who refused to let her return to the tribe where she felt she belonged. There is little overt drama in those years spent in a limbo of loss and longing for her warrior husband and sons, shunted from one household to another and watching her small daughter become like the whites whose ways Cynthia Ann was unwilling to relearn. Meyer alternates between Cynthia Ann's viewpoint and the diary of a fictional younger cousin whose curiosity about Comanche life is used to explore differences between Indians' and settlers' ways. Her long-repressed memories of ``the time before the People'' return to her in an extended flashback describing her capture, the abuse and enslavement that followed, and the gradual fading of her ``white'' identity as she became a respected member of the band and the wife of a chief. It's a skillful examination of how individual identity is determined by cultural and social structures, and of what happens when these are drastically altered. Historical note; portrait. Bibliography not seen. (Fiction. 10+)
《书目》(Booklist)书评
Gr. 7-12. Little is actually known about the life of Cynthia Ann Parker, who was stolen by the Comanches as a child and lived with them for 24 years, first as a slave, then as a chief's wife and mother of famous Indian warrior Quanah Parker. But it is true that her family continued to look for her, and that she was eventually returned to them against her will. Meyer tells Parker's story through the eyes of Cynthia Ann and the journal of a fictional 12-year-old cousin, Lucy, who tries to be Cynthia Ann's friend. Although those who read the afterword may be surprised at how much of this book is fiction, they will certainly be caught up in Cynthia Ann's story and forced to assess, along with her, life with the People, as she calls the Comanches, versus life with her kin. Meyer had some difficult terrain to travel in this book. Given the Comanches' reputation as one of the fiercest tribes, she could hardly whitewash their behavior: slave keeping, scalping, indiscriminate killing. Yet she also has to show the hold that Cynthia Ann's former life had on her and why she struggled to return to the People. At this difficult task, Meyer is successful; however, whether this account is anywhere near the truth, no one will ever know. (Reviewed Dec. 1, 1992)0152006397Ilene Cooper