Not long into her novel about the family of Lincoln’s assassin, Karen Joy Fowler made an audacious decision.
, Fowler addresses the issue of writing a historical novel about a historical bad guy in an innovative way. She doesn’t only expand her novel’s palette, telling the decades-spanning story of the entire Booth family, a clan in which John is one among many until the fateful moment he makes himself the family’s—and the nation’s—villain.
This can get clunky. The novel occasionally seems to abjure entirely the imaginative leaps of fiction to deliver nonfiction-style exposition. An aside on the Maryland state song turns into a disquisition on the song’s anti-Union sentiments and concludes with the fact that attempts to replace the song have failed as recently as 2020.
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