Toby A. Smith
A well-researched, deeply emotional, and imaginatively rich portrait of the absent father in Louisa May Alcott's novel, LITTLE WOMEN. Cleverly combining historical nuggets with her own dramatic license, Brooks creates Mr. March as an admirable, complex, financially naive, self-absorbed idealist who goes off to support the North in the American Civil War, witnessing horror and carnage. Full of rich themes and characters.