"Charis is a prismatic grace journey that awakens our dulled senses and ignites our adventurous hearts. A seventeenth-century girl pilgrim, with dark shadows of Salem foreboding over her, begins a refractive journey as a faithful exile toward a golden sea."
— Makoto Fujimura, Artist; Author of Culture Care and Silence and Beauty

"Imagine if William Faulkner had decided to rewrite Last of the Mohicans. What you would have is something like Charis in the World of Wonders—a wild adventure tale written with grace and insight.  Youmans' prose is fluid, sharply witty, and deeply rich in symbolism—the work of a master."
— J. Augustine Wetta, OSB, Author of The Eighth Arrow and Humility Rules

"Youmans' magnificent storyteller brings the early days of Europeans on the American continent vividly to life, in all their wonder and sorrow."
— Emily Barton, Author of Brookland  and The Book of Esther

"Charis in the World of Wonders confirms once more Marly Youmans' place among the magi. There is indeed 'a dark and amazing intricacy in the ways of Providence', as this spellbinding novel attests."
— John Wilson, Contributing Editor, Englewood Review of Books

"From the pen of an award-winning novelist and poet comes the story of Charis, a girl who loses everything and finds love and acceptance in an age of fear and uncertainty. This book is that rare thing, a novel containing characters who are both historically accurate and completely relatable."
— Fiorella De Maria, Author of A Most Dangerous Innocence and The Sleeping Witness