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[quote=Anonymous]I was the poster in Oct that was struggling with Geraldine Brooks’ The Secret Chord, who then turned to Brooks’ March.  I ended up DNF the first and really enjoying the second. It is Little Women from the father’s perspective, focusing on his experience with abolitionism & in the Civil War.

At first I thought it a little too on the nose that the novel depicted the March family as just happening to have close ties with Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau but then learned that Louisa May Alcott herself grew up in the milieu and so was both influenced by transcendentalism and somewhat skeptical of its excesses. I found this aspect of the book fascinating and really I should turn to a biography of Alcott next.

But instead I next read the Ninth Hour, by Alice McDermott, another author I associate with the 90’s and aughts and have never read. About a small order of nuns in early 20th century Irish-American Brooklyn. Somehow a quite visceral, almost gripping story about very everyday life. I liked it a lot though it may not be everyone’s cup of tea.[/quote]

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