My hand, which I note is flecked with traces of dried phlegm, has the tremor of exhaustion. The line I have set down is, perhaps, on the florid side of fine, but no matter: she is a gentle critic. I pause there to mop my aching eye, which will not stop tearing. A dipping sun gilded and brazed each raveling edge as if the firmament were threaded through with precious filaments. This is what I write to her: The clouds tonight embossed the sky. Melissa Block visits Brooks at her home and the scene of the battle nearby.įollowing is an excerpt from March: A Novel by Geraldine Brooks. The discovery of a Union soldier's belt buckle in the Civil War-era courtyard of Brooks' home provided the germ of the novel. 21, 1861, on a steep bluff overlooking the Potomac River, Union forces were flanked and routed by Confederate troops. The author lives near the site of the battle where, on Oct. March, becomes undone by the evils of war and his own moral shortcomings. A Civil War battle of Ball's Bluff, near Leesburg, Va., forms the backdrop for the opening scene of Geraldine Brooks' new novel, March.
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