Three Brothers from Virginia: An epic tale of love and liberation in the Civil War

by Andy Lazris

Three Brothers from Virginia tells the tale of Matt and his two enslaved brothers, Paul and Luke, who thrive upon their insulated Virginia farm until the Civil War forces them to stare into the face of a reality they so long eluded. As Paul flees to New York, Matt joins the Confederate army, and Luke remains a slave, the brothers are thrown into sweeping battles, riots, and a cloud of enmity, their values and lives tested by a festering intolerance that threatens the only truth they ever knew. At its core the book explores the perils and fragility of forbidden love in a world governed by an uncompromising adherence to dogma. Torn from everything they cherish, each brother must survive the war before being thrust back together in a new reality. This epic tale of the Civil War explores the power of individuals to endure in a hypocritical and self-serving society.

712 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 15, 2020

About the author

Andy Lazris is a physician, historian, and author. He has written numerous books on health care including Curing Medicare, Interpreting Health Benefits and Risks, and Understand COVID-19 Risks.
He has written a fictional account of COVID related to his experience treating COVID patients in long term care, The Geriatrics Vengeance Club in the Era of COVID.
His newest historical fiction books are
Three Brothers from Virginia, an epic novel of the Civil War
Yadel the Dreidel, part one, The Rise of the Zealots, a sweeping, comedic trilogy of Jewish History from the Roman times to the present through my creation, Yadel, who with his friend Clausius, travel the world through infinity.
His email is www.andylazris.com with his blog, videos, and radio shows.

Reviews

[John Stults · Rating 4 out of 5]

interesting story

The author presents a good story about a mixed race family in northern Virginia
Th white son ends up joining the confederate army and rather miraculously becomes friend with Lee stonewall Jackson and Longstreet eventually the three brothers get together after the war including the one who stayed on the farm and the one who escaped to the north and eventually served in the union army.
Good detail of prejudices not just against blacks but Catholics and Jews perhaps it has too happy an ending but then it is fiction.

[John Tichy · Rating 3 out of 5]

A tale of 3 brothers, two slave and one white, before and during the Civil War in the foothills of Virginia. The white brother’s unlikely marriage to the scheming daughter of the town’s power broker leads to some surprising plot twists.