In Brooks’ Pultzer-prize winning novel, the author richly imagines the wartime experiences of March, the absent father in Little Women. A chaplain in the Union Army, his experiences during the Civil War and Reconstruction will test March’s most deeply held beliefs and change his marriage. Brooks drew on the journals and letters of Louisa May Alcott’s father Bronson, a friend and contemporary of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau.
