T
itle: VarinaVarina Davis reminisces with an old acquaintance about her life; how she met and married Jefferson Davis, living in Washington as a young woman, their flight after the loss of the American Civil War, and her time in Europe after the war.
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My Thoughts
I had never even heard of Varina Davis before reading this novel. I loved reading about her life, told through a fictional lens, jumping back and forth between the past and her life living in a hotel as she told the story to James, a freed slave who had lived as a young boy raised with her children. Not many stories get told from the perspective of the losing side, but especially not from the women of the losing side. The story is not about the morals of the war, but rather encompasses Varina's whole life, with the Confederacy being just one mistake in a difficult life.
I really recommend this one when looking for a read about a complex and interesting woman.
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