Neverhome: A Novel

Neverhome: A Novel

<div><strong>NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICE</strong></div><div><b ><br></b></div><div><b >Inaugural winner of the </b><b >Grand Prix de la Littérature Américaine</b></div><div><br></div> She calls herself Ash, but that's not her real name. She is a farmer's faithful wife, but she has left her husband to don the uniform of a Union soldier in the Civil War. NEVERHOME tells the harrowing story of Ash Thompson during the battle for the South. Through bloodshed and hysteria and heartbreak, she becomes a hero, a folk legend, a madwoman and a traitor to the American cause.<br><br>Laird Hunt's dazzling new novel throws a light on the adventurous women who chose to fight instead of stay behind. It is also a mystery story: why did Ash leave and her husband stay? Why can she not return? What will she have to go through to make it back home?<br><br> In gorgeous prose, Hunt's rebellious young heroine fights her way through history, and back home to her husband, and finally into our hearts. <br><br>