March
Pulitzer Prize Winner (A Novel)

The premise is an interesting one - Little Women from the eyes of their father, a chaplain in Union army during the Civil War. But so, so preachy. And often plodding. Had there not been the 'Little Women' connection (one of my favorites as a girl), I'd have been tempted to give it one star instead of two. The narrator also sounded like he was about 100 years old, far older than the actual character, and did no justice to female or slave voices. It was a tough ride, but I made it to the end. Not sure I'd recommend the trip to anyone else!

I've read _Little Women_ many times in my life but never did figure out what war Mr. March went off to fight in UNTIL this book! It didn't really have a lot to do with Alcott's book, other than the 2-3 time checkpoints that the author mentions in the Afterword. Well, despite the tedious review below, I LOVED this book. I loved the humor of it, I loved listening to Mr. March speak about the practice of slavery that he was seeing first-hand, and I loved listening to Mrs. March fret and worry as she worked through the devastation of learning that her husband had had a years-long affair---whether or not consummated---with a black slave. The story held my attention the whole way through, and when it was done, I listened to it a second time. I LOVED it!

March took me by my idealistic hands and thrust me completely into the Civil War where I experienced it in ways I had not before. It was easy for me to become invested in this story because it is based on the mysterious Mr. March from Little Women; the husband of Marmee, and the father of Meg, Jo, B......more

It's not that I don't like any historical fiction, I just think that it's a really hard thing to do right, without simplifying everything. Nah, I really just hate historical fiction. And I think that March is a perfect example of historical fiction gone wrong. 1. I hate it in historical fiction when......more

I wanted desperately to like this book! And I sort of did! "Little Women" is one of my wife's favs, and I'm a sucker for Civil War novels (all five billion of 'em). But this book, though elegantly written, struck me as too schmaltzy and too overly preachy to enjoy. It was also a wee bit predictable......more

Mr. March, father to Luisa May Alcott's Little Women, is brought to life in this poignant novel by Geraldine Brooks. When he departs to fight in the Civil War, Mr. March is unprepared for the great cruelties he will bear witness to. His moral certainties are called into question by the atrocities of......more