posted by Charles H. Russo on Jul 22
A few months ago, David and Christopher were in Paris and while having dinner in a nice restaurant, we discussed books that had been important in our childhoods and I mentioned Little Women. Of course, that was more a book for girls and neither of them remembered having read it. But Christopher recommended March, by Geraldine Brooks, which recounts the year(s) that Little Women’s father, Dr March, spends away from them, while a chaplain in the army.
I thoroughly enjoyed the book. It has been carefully researched and at times, it echoes parts of Little Women that I remember. I really appreciated the fact that war is not idealised.
It also casts an interesting light on the four sisters and their mother, in a way that I, as a child, would never have imagined.
Famous writers like Thoreau and Emerson appear in the book as well as John Brown whose body was not yet a-mouldering in the grave.
Really worth reading.
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