FORT COLLINS READS
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Pulitzer Prize
winning author
GERALDINE BROOKS
will speak in Fort Collins

ABOUT MARCH
BY GERALDINE BROOKS

Geraldine Brooks won the Pulitzer Prize in 2006 for her novel about the Civil War experiences of “March,” the absent father characterized in the classic, “Little Women” by Louisa May Alcott. An idealistic chaplain, March leaves behind his wife and daughters to fight on behalf of the Union during the first year of the war. During his recovery from a near-fatal illness, March comes to question his most closely-held beliefs -- indeed his faith in himself – as he witnesses the brutal and racist acts of people on both sides in the war.

Brooks wrote “March” after exploring the journals and letters of Bronson Alcott, Louisa May Alcott’s father. He was a transcendentalist and educator.

“From the vibrant intellectual world of New England and the sensuous antebellum South, ‘March’ adds adult resonance to Alcott’s optimistic children’s tale and portrays the moral complexity of war, a marriage tested by the demands of extreme idealism, and by the temptations of a powerful forbidden attraction.” http://www.geraldinebrooks.com/

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