A Separate Country

Robert Hicks follows his best seller "Widow of the South" with another historical novel. Set in New Orleans shortly after the end of the civil war, General Hood arrives trying to forget the atrocities of the war and the part he played in it. He marries a beautiful and alluring woman, starts a business, hoping to move on. But yellow fever and poverty, lust and greed fill the city and Hood has to make some difficult decisions regarding his life and his family's.

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Review by Denise R