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uncommongrace25 's review for:
The Removes
by Tatjana Soli
Continuing my reading through people of the Civil War (and after), I came across The Removes by Tatjana Soli. It is written with three voices -- General George A. Custer, his wife Libbie Bacon Custer, and Anne Cummins, a young woman who is kidnapped by Indians when they raid her homestead. Anne became my favorite character (the only fictional one) based on the lives of captives. She is truly transformed by the experience. Her "removes" from her former life are the subject of the title. To be fair, there is very little Civil War in this book but it is part of the beginning of the story. The West looms much larger, however. My foreknowledge of Custer was limited to he crashed out at West Point, had flamboyant clothes and hair and died at Little Big Horn. This book gave him a much fuller character based on his own writings and those of historians. His wife, Libbie, made an interesting comparison to Varina Davis (Jefferson's wife) who was the subject of the last book I read.