March relates the civil war actions of Mr. March, the absent father of Louisa May Alcott’s protagonist in Little Women. Brooks used as source materials Mr. Alcott's letters and journals, and the writings of Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson who were friends of the Alcott family. Thoreau and Emerson also appear in the novel as secondary characters and friends of the Marches. The novel won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. And Southern Living identified it as one of the 50 Books from the past 50 Years everyone should read, at least once.

New York: Viking, 2005. 1^st printing. 280 pages. Hardcover book with dustjacket; both in FINE condition. SIGNED by Brooks.