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Geraldine Brooks is an excellent writer, so you know that anything she writes will be well crafted and enjoyable. I almost didn't read this book, because it takes many of its characters from the popular book, Little Women, which I found rather saccharine with characters that didn't have much depth. But in this book Brooks takes the mostly absent father and the perfect mother, Marme, and makes them flesh and blood. Here they are not perfect. She uses these characters to give some insight into some of what happened during the Civil War, and the disillusionment that comes to those who experience war first hand. I enjoyed the switch partway through to Marme's point of view when we learn that her husband's perceptions of her feelings were not always accurate. A deep, but enjoyable read, with so much more substance than the sentimental Little Women.