Geraldine Brooks' 2005 novel 'March' is narrated by the absentee father of which classic novel?
March (novel) River, Union forces were flanked and routed by Confederate troops. The discovery of a Union soldier's belt buckle in the Civil War-era courtyard of Brooks' home provided the germ of the novel." March (novel) March (2005) is a novel by Geraldine Brooks. It is a novel that retells Louisa May Alcott's novel "Little Women" from the point of view of Alcott's protagonists' absent father. Brooks has inserted the novel into the classic tale, revealing the events surrounding March's absence during the American Civil War in 1862. The novel won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. In 1862, Mr. March, an
Geraldine Brooks (writer) Geraldine Brooks (writer) Geraldine Brooks (born 14 September 1955) is an Australian American journalist and novelist whose 2005 novel, "March", won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. While retaining her Australian citizenship, she became a United States citizen in 2002. A native of Sydney, Geraldine Brooks grew up in its inner-west suburb of Ashfield. Her father, Lawrie Brooks, was an American big-band singer who was stranded in Adelaide on a tour of Australia when his manager absconded with the band's pay; he decided to remain in Australia, and became a newspaper sub-editor; her mother Gloria, from Boorowa, was a public relations