Author: charlesfrazier

“A sharp, evocative novel” (Publishers Weekly) from the National Book Award–winning author of Cold Mountain: When young Varina weds the man who will eventually be appointed president of the Confederacy, she must come to terms with her role in one of the darkest chapters of American history.

From the National Book Award–winning author of Cold Mountain: When orphan Will embarks on a journey into the Cherokee wilderness, his fate becomes intertwined with the lives of those in the tribe. A “fascinating and moving” tale (USA Today) with more than 2,300 five-star Goodreads ratings.

In 1997, Charles Frazier’s debut novel Cold Mountain made publishing history when it sailed to the top of The New York Times best-seller list for sixty-one weeks, won numerous literary awards, including the National Book Award, and went on to sell over three million copies. Now, the beloved American epic returns, reissued by Grove Press to coincide with the publication of Frazier’s … Frazier’s eagerly-anticipated second novel, Thirteen Moons. Sorely wounded and fatally disillusioned in the fighting at Petersburg, a Confederate soldier named Inman decides to walk back to his home in the Blue Ridge mountains to Ada, the woman…