6/12/2023 0 Comments John jakes north and south books![]() There was fiery rhetoric on both sides of the Mason/Dixon, and it was kind of scandalous for a Yankee and a Southron to be hanging out. ![]() ![]() Even prior to the outbreak of the American Civil War, tensions ran high between the North and the South. Their friendship isn’t without struggle though. Though Orry hails from a slave-owning plantation in South Carolina and George’s family owns an iron company in Pennsylvania, the two strike a fast friendship. Orry Main and George Hazard meet as cadets at West Point in the 1840s. (I love you, vacation days!) North and South begins a trilogy of books that tell the epic tale of the Mains and the Hazards. Family scandal and treachery will do that to you… As well as vacation days. ![]() Weighing in at 812 pages, I was shocked to get through it in less than a week. ![]() She was all, “Katie, it’s like if The Pillars of the Earth was set during the Civil War.” And I was all, “Ooooooh, that sounds wonderful.” Technically, I finished this after midnight on New Year’s Eve, so I’m going to say it counts as my first official read of 2014. My friend Lauren from Filing Jointly demanded that I read North and South by John Jakes. JanuKatie Words for Worms Civil War, Coming of Age, Historical Fiction 31 ![]()
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