Neespaugot: Legend of the Indian’s Coin by John Mugglebee

Publisher: Brandt Street Press (May 29, 2017)
Category: Historical Fiction, Native American Fiction, African American Fiction
Tour dates: Sept-Oct, 2017
ISBN: 978-0974260792
Available in Print & ebook, 378 pages

Melba Blue Jay, sixteen, scrambling up a snow-filled mountain path, her knife at a child’s throat. Archie Chung at the helm of the South Pacific Belle, foremast snapped like a toothpick, barreling toward a coral reef. Spindly Lydia Freeman, skin the color of dark ale, feeding tea made of birch bark to an Irish murderess. Zeke Roxxmott teetering at three hundred feet on the five-inch ledge of his penthouse, bent on a flawless destruction.

Adventurers, inextricably linked by a bloodline… and an Indian’s coin.

Where history and imagination meet!

John Mugglebee’s Neespaugot is based on the real-life exploits of his own ancestors.  A sweeping historical saga of his Native American, African American, Scots-Irish, Chinese, Russian Jewish family, it spans three centuries with adventures that keep you turning page after page.  You’ll fall in love with these characters, who stay with you long after you’ve put the book down.

My Thoughts Neespaugot: Legend of the Indian’s Coin by John Mugglebee

Spanning 400 years this story of historical fiction follows the real life exploits of the author’s ancestors and the Indian coin his ancestors possessed. The first owner of the coin was Runinniduk, a Native American who received it from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for his assistance in translating the bible.  Years late his granddaughter, Melba Blue Jay take possesion of the coin after Runinniduk’s death.  She is arrested and sent into slavery in the West Indies. She survives and has children and escapes to New France (now Canada).  She eventually makes the journey back to Neespaugot with her daughter.

After Melba Blue Jay’s death, her daughter takes possession of the coin.  Eventually that coin makes it to many places and centuries and eventually end up in 2015.  It’s very beat up and impossible to read but still priceless to those in it’s possession.

This story is a family saga that follows one family through the generations.  At one point the story of the coin and the ancestors was lost but then regained.  The characters are well written and come to life as does the description of the land in the places the coin inhabits.  This is a beautiful, breath taking story.  I did not want it to end!  I also think it would make an excellent movie or even miniseries.  I highly recommend it.

5/5

I received the ebook for my honest review.

About John Mugglebee

John Mugglebee is a racial and ethnic jigsaw puzzle. His heritage, in chronological order, includes Native American, African American, Scots-Irish, Chinese and Russian Jew. John has said there were two major factors that shaped him as a person and a writer. One was “Being colored but not knowing which color.”

The other was upheaval. Born in Massachusetts, at age eleven he was uprooted to Southern California in the midst of the ’60s race riots. Growing up, John was told family stories that had been passed down for generations.  Neespaugot is loosely based on those stories.

He currently lives in the South of France, where he heads a language laboratory for French Civil Aviation. John graduated from Dartmouth and earned a master’s in creative writing from Colorado State University. His previous novel, Renaissance in Provence, was published in 2004.

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