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March
by Geraldine Brooks
March is not at all a 'sequel', or 'companion' to Louisa May Alcott's Little Women... It did hold some interesting conversations of what it could have meant for a man to go off into such an idealized war with the opinions Mr. March was depicted as having held (although the whole vegetarian/vegan thing seemed a little superfluous to me, but that's just my opinion). I enjoyed the novel, this isn't my first experience with Geraldine Brooks... but it didn't grab me the way the most recent Pulitzer Prize winners did. March struck me as an interesting story, but I couldn't help but feel that using Mr. March of Little Women, versus any other family man, was merely to heighten the pain and suffering that we see this man go through, as we who are reading this novel are assumed to have been exposed to the March girls and the idealistic picture of family life they have represented in literature, either in film or the novel. I must admit to being shocked by the characterizations. Indeed, the most compelling drama in the novel was for me, that of the contraband slaves, as the socio-political status of Freedmen during the war and in the early days of Reconstruction, has always struck me so gray and hopeless. Give this novel a chance, but don't expect to be as moved by this Civil War drama as I was by, say, Cold Mountain.