E.L. Doctorow's 'The March' is Kerri's book pick

Kerri's book pick of the week is E.L. Doctorow's "The March."

The 2006 book is a fictional account of Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman's Union Army in 1864.

"Doctorow's teeming fictional account of the army's progress through Georgia and the Carolinas, razing cities and plantations and sweeping up in its wake a mongrel procession of freed slaves and white refugees, is an extraordinary achievement, bringing together historical and invented characters and reviving with abundant colour and energy an episode of American history whose consequences still reverberate in contemporary race relations," wrote Stephanie Merritt in The Guardian.

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