1836: Year of Escape

If you liked Patrick O'Brian's epic Aubrey/Maturin series, Anthony Doerr's All the Light We Cannot See, or Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club, you'll love 1836.

Europe, beautiful and cultured, is roiling in post-Napoleonic chaos...

...the only way out is to cross a dangerous ocean.

Can this desperate family reach the shores of America?

In 1836, Europe is still haunted by the Napoleonic Wars, and battle-weary veterans get the worst of it. Reactionary rulers everywhere try to snuff out the very idea of...