The Confederate General Rides North
A Novel

Really enjoyed this book... I read it at a time when our national cultural and political experience feels more polarized and fragmented than any time time in my life. The story of a civil war buff daughter and her troubled mother traveling north from Georgia toward New England was ideal for challeng......more

A mother and 11-year-old daughter sneak away to take a trip so the mother can buy antiques for a shop she wants to open. The girl, Kat, is fascinated by the Civil War so she plans the itinerary to visit battle fields. Even though the mother is Northern and distanced from the father's family's Confed......more

Bipolar mother takes her daughter on an unplanned trip. You are just waiting for the crisis point where katherine will stop trying to cope with everything herself.......more

This book was ambitious and achieved many of its over-arching goals: showing general family dysfunction by keeping some family members' motivations mysterious while simultaneously representing the horror that is a child's view of a parent's manic/depressive disorder with veracity. As the child of a......more

I have been fascinated with Gettysburg since I was 9 and read a story called Emmeline about a young girl caught on the battlefield. I also have kind of a crush on Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and Stonewall Jackson and Robert E Lee since reading The Killer Angels and watching Ken Burns documentary abo......more