One of my goals is to read Pulitzer Prize winning books. March is the 2006 Pulitzer Prize winner. The author, Geraldine Brooks, tells about the father in Louisa May Alcott's classic, Little Women, who has gone off to the Civil War as a chaplain.

Mr. March sees the horrors of war, especially the Union's acts of barbarism and racism. His letters home try to spare Marmee and the girls and so they know little of the father's horrible experience and tests of faith. This is a vivid account of the war and its shattered lives. It could be a story of the present, just change the names and the places. I've always wondered how a chaplain can go to war. It seems a contradiction.

I feel like I need to reread Little Women, but it will never seem the same after reading March.