The American Civil War has just ended and Gawain Harper is trudging home to Cumberland, Mississippi. Old scores need settling and before he can take up his old lifestyle, he must once again see the North fighting the South even in peacetime.
Howard Bahr teaches English at Motlow State Community College in Tullahoma, Tennessee.
Howard Bahr teaches English at Motlow State Community College in Tullahoma, Tennessee. His first novel, The Black Flower, was a New York Times Book Review Notable Book and received the Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.