Book description
Spanning the post-Civil War era to the edge of the Great Depression, In
the Fall is an extraordinary epic of three generations of an American
family, the dark secrets that blister at its core, and the transcendent
bonds between men and women that fuel their lives over the course of six
decades. In the twilight of the Civil War, a Union soldier named Norman
Pelham is found battle-wounded and near death by Leah, a slave running
from a different hell. After Leah nurses him back to health, Norman
brings her to his family homestead in Vermont as his wife, and there
they begin a family that will be shaped by their passionate devotion to
each other and its consequences. 'Placing Lent alongside respected
contemporaries such as Charles Frazier and David Guterson, In the Fall
is an ambitious, dramatic and sweeping book filled with humanity and
crafted thought, even as it touches on the most disturbing and desperate
of themes' The Times
