Homeland : a novel
(Book)

Two women -- southerner Susanna Ashford and northerner Cora Poole -- exchange letters throughout the Civil War, writing about the ordeal of a familiar world torn apart by tragedy, about books and art, about loss and longing, about their future and the future of their country, about love, about being a woman in nineteenth-century America, about friendship, and about the triumphant resilience of the human spirit.