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March by Geraldine Brooks

3.0

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A fine idea and one that Brooks executed as well as ever, here is insight into the father figure in "Little Women" and the socio-political reality that didn't touch those charming sisters at all, at least compared to their parents. The slow and tragic spiral from man of courage and "moral certainty" to one that is so haunted by the atrocities he witnessed and--in his opinion--caused, is well wrought indeed. But thank goodness for the perspective of Marmee in the last part of the book that reveals a fuller account of a marriage full of sacrifice, omission, self-denial, and misunderstanding. This makes great companion reading to the book that inspired it and provides a strong dose of reality and balance into an otherwise sheltered narrative.