Jacob's Ladder: A Story of Virginia During the War by Donald McCaig

Jacob's Ladder: A Story of Virginia During the War

Donald McCaig

528 pages first pub 1998 (editions)

fiction historical challenging reflective slow-paced
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Duncan Gatewood, seventeen and heir to Gatewood Plantation, falls in love with Maggie, a mulatto slave, who conceives a son, Jacob. Maggie and Jacob are sold south, and Duncan is packed off to the Virginia Military Institute—he will eventually fig...

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Moods

challenging 50%
informative 50%
sad 50%
tense 50%

Pace

medium 100%

Plot- or character-driven?

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Diverse cast of characters?

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