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Also by Charles Frazier:

The Trackers, April 2023
Hardcover / e-Book
Varina, April 2019
Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
Varina, April 2018
Hardcover / e-Book
Thirteen Moons, October 2006
Hardcover
Cold Mountain, September 2006
Trade Size (reprint)

Varina
Charles Frazier

Ecco
April 2018
On Sale: April 3, 2018
368 pages
ISBN: 0062405985
EAN: 9780062405982
Kindle: B07257Z8HK
Hardcover / e-Book
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Paperback (reprint - April 2019)

Historical

Sooner or later, history asks, which side were you on?

In his powerful new novel, Charles Frazier returns to the time and place of Cold Mountain, vividly bringing to life the chaos and devastation of the Civil War

Her marriage prospects limited, teenage Varina Howell agrees to wed the much-older widower Jefferson Davis, with whom she expects the secure life of a Mississippi landowner. Davis instead pursues a career in politics and is eventually appointed president of the Confederacy, placing Varina at the white-hot center of one of the darkest moments in American history—culpable regardless of her intentions.

The Confederacy falling, her marriage in tatters, and the country divided, Varina and her children escape Richmond and travel south on their own, now fugitives with “bounties on their heads, an entire nation in pursuit.”

Intimate in its detailed observations of one woman’s tragic life and epic in its scope and power, Varina is a novel of an American war and its aftermath. Ultimately, the book is a portrait of a woman who comes to realize that complicity carries consequences.

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