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In honor of Children’s Book Week, join us as we discuss Geraldine Brooks’ Pulitzer prize winning novel March, a story inspired by the father character in Little Women and drawn from the journals and letters of Louis May Alcott’s father.
In Alcott’s Little Women, readers see a perfect, self-sacrificing, loving, close-knit family. This book focuses on the absent father. Brooks creates a picture of his struggle with his not-so-perfect life during his tour of duty as a chaplain on the Civil War battlefields of Virginia.
For those who loved Little Women this story adds a wonderful dimension to a favorite classic. To all, it is a beautiful love story and tale of a man of principle who must adjust to fit the reality he encounters.
