March (novel)
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March is a novel by Geraldine Brooks. It retells Louisa May Alcott's novel Little Women from the point of view of Alcott's protagonists' absent father. Brooks has inserted the novel into the classic tale revealing the events surrounding his absence during the American Civil War in 1862.
March an abolitionist during the American Civil War is driven by his conscious to leave his family in Massachusetts and head south to educate freed slaves. During this time March relays letters to his family but withholds the true extent of the brutality, leaving the family surprised when he is shot and malnourished. A recovering March feels guilty for not committing more to the abolitionist cause but is convinced he must return home after intervention and assurance.
It won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
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