![]() ![]() As with two previous novels, Kelly weaves historical fiction with the real-life exploits of Caroline Ferriday’s family. ![]() With “Sunflower Sisters,” Kelly writes more realistically about the horrors of the Civil War from the perspective of three very different women in a well-researched, realistic narrative. Martha Hall Kelly’s latest novel looking at a family tree of women wartime heroes is the very antithesis of Margaret Mitchell’s, “Gone With the Wind.” Mitchell’s long-enduring love song to the enslaved South has frayed and worn out like an unwelcome Confederate flag.Ī still-divided America, meanwhile, struggles in the shadow of white supremacy that ignited a war between the states, the aftermath of which still haunts us today. That “Sunflower Sisters” comes out when one of the most popular Civil War era novels of all time comes under fire is notable. ![]()
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