Beheld is a novel by author TaraShea Nesbit.
Bestselling author of The Wives of Los Alamos. The gripping story of a stranger’s arrival in the fledgling colony of Plymouth, Massachusetts – and the crime that rocked the divided community to its very core.
Ten years after the Mayflower Pilgrims arrived on a rocky foreign land, Plymouth was not the land its inhabitants had imagined. Seemingly founded on a dream of religious freedom, the town is in fact led by fervent purists. Those who forbid the inhabitants to live, trade and worship in the way they choose. On a summer morning, an unfamiliar ship, carrying the new colonists, appeared on the horizon, the non-Anglicans had had enough.
TaraShea Nesbit rearranges the story of the Pilgrims with the previously unheard voices of two women of different statuses and backgrounds. She conjures up a lively, ominous Plymouth, with famous and unknown characters alike, each with conflicting desires and questionable behavior.
Beheld is about a murder and a trial, and the motives – personal and political – that cause people to act in unprofitable ways. It is also a poignant portrait of love, motherhood and friendship that asks: Whose stories are told over time, who is believed – and then, who is punished?
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Beheld
