Those who loved Cold Mountain or Geraldine Brooks’s
March will embrace and long remember this
spellbinding novel of two remarkable women torn apart by
conflict, sustained by literature and art, united by
friendship and hope.
As brother turns
against brother in the bloodbath of the Civil War, two
young women sacrifice everything but their friendship.
Susanna Ashford is the Southerner, living on a plantation
surrounded by scarred and blood-soaked battlefields. Cora
Poole is the Northerner, on an isolated Maine island, her
beloved husband fighting for the Confederacy. Through the
letters the two women exchange, they speak of the ordeal
of a familiar world torn apart by tragedy. And yet their
unique friendship will help mend the fabric of a ravaged
nation.
The two women write about books and art,
about loss and longing, about their future and the future
of their country. About love. About being a woman in
nineteenth-century America. About the triumphant
resilience of the human spirit.
Their voices and
their stories are delineated in indomitable prose by an
award-winning writer who captures in intimate detail a
singular moment in time. In Homeland,
Barbara Hambly takes readers on a unique odyssey across a
landscape treacherous with hardship and hatred. She paints
a passionate masterpiece of a friendship that not only
transforms our understanding of the most heart-wrenching
era of American history but celebrates the power of women
to change their world.
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