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"Being on the wrong side of history carries consequences. V lives that truth every day."
Varina Howell Davis, the wife of the Confederate President Jefferson Davis, was a strong woman who faced many challenges in her life. Set in 1906, the elderly Varina talks about her life with James, a multiracial man, on six Sunday afternoons. When James was four years old, Varina rescued the orphaned boy from an abusive situation. She raised him with her children until the Confederacy fell. The family fled s ...more
Varina Howell Davis, the wife of the Confederate President Jefferson Davis, was a strong woman who faced many challenges in her life. Set in 1906, the elderly Varina talks about her life with James, a multiracial man, on six Sunday afternoons. When James was four years old, Varina rescued the orphaned boy from an abusive situation. She raised him with her children until the Confederacy fell. The family fled s ...more
I hadn't heard of this book before it was suggested for my neighborhood book club. It was an excellent choice for that group - enough history to hold a story together, an interesting female protagonist, a little conversation about the Civil War, but nothing too challenging to the group's existing feelings.
I don't know enough about the real Varina (wife of Jefferson Davis) to know whether anything here is historically accurate, and this book didn't make me care enough to go check. What the book d ...more
I don't know enough about the real Varina (wife of Jefferson Davis) to know whether anything here is historically accurate, and this book didn't make me care enough to go check. What the book d ...more
Jul 03, 2018
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