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March
by Geraldine Brooks
Really enjoyed Geraldine Brooks take on the fathers story from Little Women. The book begins with Peter March's early travels as a peddler from the North hawking his goods in the South. His experiences in the South lead him to become an abolitionist and become attracted to Marmee a strong willed woman with similar ideas and beliefs. The books talks of their marriage and the births of their four children - Jo, Beth, Meg and Amy, the Little Women girls from Louisa May Alcott's novel Little Women - and their friendship with the Thoreau and Emerson families. However the majority of the book is dedicated towards Peter's time as a chaplain in the Civil War and is Brook's imagined view of what Peter was really going through as he wrote the letters home to the Little Women, Brooks based a lot of Peter's character and experiences on the journals and other documentation of Louisa May Alcott's father Bronson. Very well told story, engaging and captivating, a great work of historical fiction.