![]() ![]() He suffers from a prolonged illness stemming from poor conditions on a cotton farm in Virginia. During this time, March writes letters to his family, but he withholds the true extent of the brutality and injustices he witnesses on and off the battlefields. March, an abolitionist and chaplain in the Union Army, is driven by his conscience to leave his home and family in Concord, Massachusetts, to participate in the war. ![]() The novel won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Brooks has inserted the novel into the classic tale, revealing the events surrounding March's absence during the American Civil War in 1862. ![]() It is a novel that retells Louisa May Alcott's novel Little Women from the point of view of Alcott's protagonists' absent father. March (2005) is a novel by Geraldine Brooks. ![]()
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