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  • This book starts out from the view-point of Mr. March (father from Little Women). It is set during the time he was away from the March family home, serving down south in the civil war. Brooks handles both the battle scenes and post battle scenes convincingly but the book bogs down severely in the ... Continue

    This book starts out from the view-point of Mr. March (father from Little Women). It is set during the time he was away from the March family home, serving down south in the civil war. Brooks handles both the battle scenes and post battle scenes convincingly but the book bogs down severely in the middle as Brooks fills us in on the history of the abolitionist movement and on March's own personal history. However, the story soon returns to the current Civil War storyline which thankfully allows the pace of the book to pick back up again. Most of the second part of the book is told from the viewpoint of Marmee (mother from Little Women).

    

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  • I enjoyed this historical fiction set in the early 19th century and in the early years of the U.S. Civil War. I liked reading about the Underground Railroad, John Brown, and the transcendentalist movement (Thoreau, Emerson). I think it helps to have read Little Women first so March's descriptions of ... Continue

    I enjoyed this historical fiction set in the early 19th century and in the early years of the U.S. Civil War. I liked reading about the Underground Railroad, John Brown, and the transcendentalist movement (Thoreau, Emerson). I think it helps to have read Little Women first so March's descriptions of his wife and daughters become more familiar.

    

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From Louisa May Alcott’s beloved classic Little Women, Geraldine Brooks has animated the character of the absent father, March, and crafted a story "filled with the ache of love and marriage and with the power of war upon the mind and heart of one unforgettable man" (Sue Monk Kidd). With "pitch-perfect writing" (USA Today), Brooks follows March as he leaves behind his family to aid the Union cause in the Civil War. His experiences will utterly change his marriage and challenge his most ardently held beliefs. A lushly written, wholly original tale steeped in the details of another time, March secures Geraldine Brooks’s place as a renowned author of historical fiction.

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