Dec 12, 2018tjdickey rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Frazer, who so captivated his readers in "Cold Mountain," is completely back on form. He invites us across a panoply of historical landscapes from ante-bellum plantations on the Mississippi river to Saratoga Springs and Paris, navigates the heights of Washington society, the collapse of the Confederacy and the sad ruins of the ravaged South. As always, his language is poetic and even musical, and his exploration of the title character - in all her painful negotiations of marriage and family, gender and race - is masterful.
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