Beginning ~ with the blue book

"If he is the boy in the blue book, where to start?  He can't expect to recognize her after four decades, and he certainly doesn't expect her to recognize him.  The last time they saw each other he would have been no more than six."

Varina ~ by Charles Frazier, 2018, fiction

I shared an overview of this book last week, and it ended with these words:  "Ultimately, the book is a portrait of a woman who comes to realize that complicity carries consequences."

I'm reading the book now, as it jumps from 1906 to 1865 in the South to 1874 in London and 1842 in Natchez.  Varina Howell married Jefferson Davis, expecting a secure life.  She had no idea he would get into politics and become president of the Confederacy.  Imagine her on the run at the end of the Civil War and all that could happen between then and 1906.  That's the story I'm reading now.

Gilion at Rose City Reader hosts Book Beginnings on Fridays. Click here for today's Mister Linky.