March

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A historical novel and love story set during the American Civil War. March tells the story of John March, the father away from his family in Louisa May Alcott's classic novel Little Women. In this telling, March emerges as an abolitionist and idealistic chaplain on the front lines of a war that tests his faith in himself and in the Union cause when he learns that his side, too, is capable of barbarism and racism. As he recovers from a near-fatal illness in a Washington hospital, he must reassemble the shards of his shattered mind and body, and find a way to reconnect with a wife and daughters who have no idea of the ordeals he has been through. The story spans the vibrant intellectual world of Concord and the sensuous antebellum South, through to the first year of the Civil War as the North reels under a series of unexpected defeats. It explores the passions between a man and a woman, the tenderness of parent and child, and the life-changing power of an ardently held belief.