The Scarlet Daughter

A vivid, deeply satisfying debut that imagines the life of Pearl Prynne, the forgotten and scorned daughter at the center of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s infamous novel, for an outspoken new generation of women.

Born under the stain of her mother Hester’s scarlet letter, Pearl spends her childhood as an outcast, bearing the burden of her mother’s shame. When widowhood allows the pair to flee, their ocean voyage becomes an education for the precocious Pearl, who learns to read the stars in tandem w...