Cold Mountain, by Charles Frazier tells the story of W.P. Inman, a wounded civil war deserter who's only wish is to make it back to his home in Cold Mountain and his beloved Ada. Unfortunately for Inman, the civil war has blighted the South, and although he meets many compassionate citizens as he trudges west to Cold Mountain, the war has also brought out the worst in others. Ada, abandoned with a farm but not the skills to work it by her Father's death, is simultaneously on her own path of discovery and learning.
The novel paints a strikingly believable, but bleak, picture of the south near the end of the war. It was a very compelling read, but like so many people's real life civil war stories, it doesn't have a particularly happy ending.
Literary Quality: 9/10
Enjoyment: 8/10
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