Secessia: A Novel

The acclaimed author of The Blood of Heaven shares "a vivid portrait of 1862 New Orleans" as Union soldiers take over in this panoramic Civil War novel (Ron Charles, Washington Post).

The largest city in the ill-starred confederacy has fallen under the soon-to-be-infamous General Benjamin "the Beast" Butler. And when twelve-year-old Joseph Woolsack disappears from his home, he draws his mother, Elise—a mixed-race woman passing for white—into a dark new world.

Joseph grapples with his f...