I wanted to like it, I really did...but it just didn't hang together right. It was the structure of the back and forth in time which was not done well and so a big distraction while reading. That said, Charles Frazier has some beautiful writing in it--many phrases, sentences or descriptions of time and place were just beautiful and I found myself staring and reading them over and over again.It reminded me he is a good author, just this book was a dud. But the constant 'head dialogue between Varina and Jimmie' was not done well. You got thoroughly sick of listening to Varina's philsophy on life and daily opium habit. I did take the time to go online and see what the real people looked like--that was interesting. Also the book cover was beautiful, I should mention that.
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