“Twenty years after the Civil War, Cass Wakefield travels back to Franklin, Tennessee, to help his friend Allison retrieve the bodies of her brother and father, who were killed in the Battle of Franklin. "It's like As I Lay Dying in reverse," was my first thought, but that didn't quite turn out to be the case. Nevertheless, this novel is based on the Faulknerian principle that "the past isn't over, it isn't even past."

In Franklin, Cass and Lucian --the orhan boy Cass adopted during...”

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