Historical fiction with a powerful grounding in both the fictive world of Louisa May Alcott ("Little Women") as well as the real history of the American Civil War. A pitiable and complicated main character (March) leaves his family to fight in the war as a committed abolitionist. As the father of Jo...
This is more like it. When I read Little Women, I couldn't help but wonder where the real hardships of war or poverty were. The author told her readers that the family was poor, but they never seemed effected by it. The father was at war, but there was no serious concern for the thousands of men f...
As I read March, I repeatedly wondered why I wasn't enjoying this novel more. Initially, I thought my lack of adoration was the result of historical-fiction burnout. March feels and sounds like so many other novels I've read. And this may have been part of my disinterest. But I think a larger part o...
Based on Louisa May Alcott's beloved classic Little Women, Geraldine Brooks brings us a parallel account of Peter March, the father of Meg, Jo Beth and Amy. Most of the story of Little Women has their father as absent while off to war. This fills in the blanks as to his whereabouts and adds a bit m...
This is the second book by Geraldine Brooks that I've read, and I love her voice and writing style. This book is based on the March family from Little Women, told from both Mr. March's point of view, as well as Marmee's. I'll preface this by saying that I tend to have a very hard time with war sto...
3.5 Stars, rounded to 3While Little Women tells the life of a mother and her daughters living on the periphery of war, March tells the story of man engulfed in it. A radical who doesn't just preach his convictions, but lives them, March feels it is his duty to join the young men of Concord as they m...
I was introduced to Geraldine Brooks when she was a guest author for a recent course I took. Her background as an investigative journalist certainly gave her the research chops that one would expect of a historical fiction author. I decided to check out some of her other work."March" is the story of...
March is the finest fan fiction I expect I will ever read. Starting with the story and people from Little Women, Brooks turns the perspective from home and hearth to the shock of the Civil War by telling her tale mainly from Mr. March’s point of view. I re-read Little Women right before reading this...
In March, Geraldine Brooks imaginatively writes a back story for Little Women by turning a beloved children's novel into an adult tour de force. She takes on many of the critical social issues facing Americans in the Nineteenth Century and weaves them into the lives of the fictitious March family. ...
This novel, an account of a year's worth of the American Civil War from the perspectives of the parents in Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, is a stunning book. "March," as he is known, who is very seriously idealistic, has gone off to be a chaplain with the Union army, and always starts his chapt...
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