June T. (Junebug) reviewed on 11/14/2006 + 14 more book reviews

Sorely wounded and fatally disillusioned in the fighting at Petersburg, Inman, a Confederate soldier decides to walk back to his home in the Blue Ridge Mountains and to Ada, the women he loved there years before. His trek across the disintegrating South brings him into intimate and sometimes lethal converse with slaves and marauders, bounty hunters and witches, both helpful and malign. At the same time, Ada is trying to revive her fathers derelict farm and learn to survive in a world where the old certainties have been swept away.

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