Review from Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Brooks's luminous second novel, after 2001's acclaimed Year of Wonders, imagines the Civil War experiences of Mr. March, the absent father in Louisa May Alcott's Little Women. An idealistic Concord cleric, March becomes a Union chaplain and later finds hi...
I approached this particular book with no small measure of trepidation, since it takes place in the world of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women. This novel tells what befell the father of the March girls while he was off at war. It's so well done, so richly imagined, and well researched, that it feels...
The tale of what war and its horrors do to marriage is told through the relationship of the Marches, parents to Alcott's Little Women. A moving exploration of idealism clashing with reality on the battlefields and among the emancipated cotton fields of the 1860s.
I enjoyed Little Women as a child, but picked up this book not for that reason but because I loved Caleb’s Crossing and wanted to read something else by Brooks. Focusing on the wartime experiences of Mr. March, the father from Little Women, this is a decent novel about the American Civil War, but ma...
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