A review by amysbrittain
Fallen Land by Taylor Brown

4.0

Aaaaah! I was so stressed out about the circumstances, but the preciousness of lives lived moment by moment (while the characters fight for survival--and also attempt to live as good people and find love and joy) was wrought beautifully by Brown. The perspective of coming upon the devastation immediately after Sherman's march through Atlanta was particularly shocking and affecting. A rough yet sometimes tender story set at the end of the Civil War, amid the confusion and desperation and cruelty and kindnesses that time.