In 1681 Boston, masters and servants inhabit two separate worlds, both of them ripe for reversal on the Saturnalia, the ancient Roman holiday on which masters and slaves exchanged places. William, the Indian captive turned printer's apprentice, who alone inhabits both worlds, plays his bone flute in search of his brother, and his own Narraganset past. In 1681 in Boston, fourteen-year-old William, a Narraganset Indian captured in a raid six years earlier, leads a productive and contented life as a printer's apprentice but is increasingly anxious to make some connection with his Indian past.
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