Tituba is a fascinating historical figure, and I never feel as if, in the stories of the witch trials, I ever really get to know her. This book helped change that. What happened to her is horrifying because, as a woman on the margins of society, she was an easy target for a group of girls and young women, themselves normally powerless, wielding the little bit of power all the attention gave them and pointing the finger at easy targets their society would be willing to persecute.