Stories of the past and the present are blended together so well, the book did feel a bit like a mystery to me - all of the clues eventually came together.Īnd at many moments, March left me breathless. We travel through distance and time, but I was never bored or agitated as everything continued to shift. Readers will clomp along in March’s boots through much of the story, which takes him from Massachusetts to Virginia to Washington, D.C. I didn’t know much of anything at all about it, and I’ve never read Little Women I didn’t know if March would even survive the journey. I’ll leave the intricacies of the plot uncovered, since reading the book was such an adventure for me.
And thus begins his harrowing journey toward education and redemption - and reconciling his painful past. When a group of frightened young men from his town join the Union forces and ask him for some words of comfort, March surprises all assembled - especially his wife - by stating he plans join them and enlist in the Army himself. March knows how strongly Marmee feels about the cause - and wants to do more, to please her and himself. Marmee and Robert are abolitionists who speak and preach often about the evils of slavery and have opened their home up as a stop on the Underground Railroad, but Mr. March, a minister, leaves his beloved Marmee and “little women” in order to help “put his money where his mouth is,” if you’ll pardon the cliche. The book is so much more than that, though.
An addition to the world of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, the novel follows Robert March, the girls’ absentee father, as he leaves Massachusetts for Virginia in order to minister and help educate the former slaves on the struggling plantation owned by Ethan Canning. March is a riveting work of historical fiction set in 1861, early days of the American Civil War. A wonderful, rich tapestry like Geraldine Brooks’s March is a little hard for me to review, but as I just finished it last night, the story is still fresh in my mind.
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