rachel_mft 's review for:

March by Geraldine Brooks

DID NOT FINISH

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I think I have to give up on this one. I have loved the other two Geraldine Brooks novels I've read, but this one just rubs me the wrong way. I think I'm morally opposed to authors appropriating other writers' characters for their own fiction. March is an imagining of the time the father in Little Women, Mr. March, spent in the Union Army during the Civil War (remember, in Little Women he's away in the war for the first part of the book). All of the scenes that depicted Marmee and the girls, and the Marches' courtship, just felt so false to me. So did the way Emerson and Thoreau were dropped in as characters. None of it rang true for me, so I'm setting it down.