new novel by Brooks...

Year of Wonders was one of the best books I have read in a while and now the author, Geraldine Brooks, has a new novel being published. This book is set in America during the Civil War and is actually the story of Louisa May Alcott's absent patriarch, Mr. March, from the Little Women books. Brooks' husband is Tony Horwitz, author of Confederates in the Attic, a nonfiction examination of those crazy Civil War re-enactors. Maybe she used it as a source?