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Sooner or later, history asks, which side were you on?

In his powerful new novel, Charles Frazier returns to the time and place of Cold Mountain, vividly bringing to life the chaos and devastation of the Civil War

Her marriage prospects limited, teenage Varina Howell agrees to wed the much-older widower Jefferson Davis, with whom she expects the secure life of a Mississippi landowner. Davis instead pursues a career in politics and is eventually appointed president of

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Varina: A Novel by Charles Frazier Book Review

Name: Heather M. Jones-Lancto
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: It's Vareeeena, not Variiiina
Date: Reviewed in the United States on October 11, 2018
Review: Full disclosure.....I am a "Damn Yankee". I don't get called that much anymore but I heard it a lot in the first few years I moved to Virginia. It never hurt my feelings, if that was the intent. I am also an avid history buff. I watch the History Channels and the Smithsonian Channel. I also like to read historical fiction. I enjoyed Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain. I liked the play on Homer's The Odyssey. When I saw that Frazier had a new book coming out called Varina I thought it might be about Varina, Virginia, a town outside of Richmond, so I pre-ordered it without reading the jacket. But that's not at all what Varina is about. Shame on me, a fan of history, not familiar with Varina Davis, wife to Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy. I wondered why Frazier would pick Varina as the topic of his next book, was she controversial? Did she have differing views from her husband on the Civil War? I was intrigued. Before I go much further let me explain the spelling of her name is VARINA but it is pronounced with an E not an I sound. It is supposedly well known that the pronunciation of her name brought her great dissatisfaction and she would often times spell it out for people as: Vareeeeeeena.....

The book description is a bit deceiving as the story follows the conversations between Varina Davis and a man named James Brooks. James believes himself to be Jimmie Limber, one of the people mentioned in a book he had recently read. Jimmie Limber was an African American child who lived with the Davis family in Richmond, VA during the Civil War. As the story goes, Varina Davis saw Jimmie being beaten on the side of the rode by an African American woman. She stopped her carriage, ended the beating, and took Jimmie home with her. It is unclear what exactly the relationship was between Jimmie and the Davis's but many accounts say that Jefferson Davis had Jimmie declared a freed slave, raised him with his own children, and after being separated after the war Jefferson never stopped looking for the boy. James Brooks has vague memories of his childhood and is hoping that Varina will be able to answer questions and fill in the blanks. The book follows a series of meetings between Varina and James.

Throughout the story you not only learn about James/Jimmie but you learn about Varina's background, her upbringing, how she and Jefferson met, what their life was like before secession, and what their life was like after the Civil War ended. One of the reasons it takes me so long to read a historical fiction is due to all of the fact checking I do while I read. For example, Frazier mentioned that James Buchanan may have had a male companion named William King, who happened to have served as Vice President of the United States. I didn't know anything about President Buchanan so I did a bunch of research and found him to actually be quite an interesting man with quite an interesting story. But in doing research you also discover discrepancies between Frazier's stories and other stories regarding Varina Davis's life. History being what it was during the 1800's we may never know whole truths. Back then they didn't have the internet, Facebook, or blogs to write down every little event that happened to a person that day. Unless you found a diary that the person left behind you may never truly understand what happened and even with a diary you are left with only that individual's interpretation of the event.

One thing I did take away about Varina Davis was that if she was a woman in today's world I think she would have been very vocal, very pro-woman's rights, and probably very powerful. She was not a stupid woman. She had been educated and loved to read. She and I may have been kindred spirits in another life. There are some differing opinions on what she thought about slavery. There are conflicting comments made by her about a woman's right to vote. I think she was very much a politicians wife and spoke to her audience. She told people what they wanted to hear.

The Davis family is buried at the Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, VA. The cemetery is a bit of a tourist attraction and I have toured the cemetery twice. I will most likely go again in the near future to view the place that Varina has been laid to rest. If what Frazier wrote about Varina's feelings and Richmond are true then I wonder if she can ever rest in eternal peace forever in a city she did not care to return to.

If you are interested in learning more about Varina Davis I highly recommend this UTube video:

Varina Davis, Southern Woman and Civil War

Cover Design - 4.0
All of Charles Frazier's cover's are works of art. Sometimes when I am driving around Virginia and the mist is settling over the landscape I am often reminded of his covers. It gives me a sense of peace.

Grammer - 4.5
Beautifully edited.

Plot - 4.0
I originally questioned this topic and this individual as the main character but what an interesting perspective on a piece of history that has been written so many times before. The division of our country from the perspective of a woman. A voice that had little to no platform in the 1800's. I think you soon discover that she was a woman with her own thoughts and belief system. She didn't care what society thought; she was going to do what she was going to do. A question that I have, and unless we discover hidden diaries or documentation we will never have the answer to (or maybe if we learn to time travel), how could the Davis family own people, it is well documented that Jefferson Davis felt that people could be possessions, and still they found a kindness in their hearts to save a boy being beaten on the side of the road. Jimmie Limber was no different than the slaves who worked the Davis plantation. I struggle with the thinking or logic behind the topic.

Believability - 4.0
It's historical fiction so there are quite a large number of historical facts. With that being said I think Frazier had many different variations of history offered to him to use and he used those that best fit his story. Not everything in the book is true and not everything is necessarily accurate. Obviously the dialogue is fiction but the events are real.

Ending - 4.5
The book had closure. You know what her life was like at the end. You know where she ended up. I don't feel a need for a second installation. I do feel a need to understand a woman's perspective on the Civil War a little bit more.

Price Value - 4.0
I think the story was well written and well worth the price. I am all about the deal so doubt if you put this book on your wish list, in a couple of years the book with go on sale.

Overall - 4.5
I enjoyed parts of this story. No lie I struggled. Besides the huge amount of time I spent doing my own research it took longer than normal to read this book because I would get angry with a topic and have to put it down. I would recommend this book because I think it is delving into an area that is beginning to emerge which is all about women in general but southern women more specifically. In life we need to be pushed beyond what makes us comfortable and this book certainly did so for me.

Name: Lavender
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: I couldn’t put it down
Date: Reviewed in the United States on June 8, 2022
Review: I hope Mr. Frazier’s research was as extensive as I think it was because I believed in the times, places and people he wrote about. I appreciated that this was a book very much possible because of The Civil War, but not about the war itself. He made Varina Davis a complicated woman who valued her beliefs, the land of her birth and her children, one of whom was black and who she rescued from a savage beating. She valued her husband, Jefferson Davis, president of the imaginary country of the Confederacy, but she knew he and his comrades and army were bound to fail. So living with him was not something she did much of and they were both better for it. At the end of her life she was wise and kind and when she died she was honored in the North and the South and rests now beside the man she was married to and the children they’d lost.

Name: amachinist
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A Southern-Belle Bellwether
Date: Reviewed in the United States on May 24, 2018
Review: Varina Howell was born into a Mississippi family whose economic status waxed and waned. At the age of 13, she was sent for one year to a girls' school in Philadelphia and returned home to be tutored by a lawyer/judge living in a cabin on her family's homestead. Judge Winchester instilled in Varina a life-long love of books and trained her in both Greek and Latin for a life of the mind through the study of history, philosophy, poetry and mathematics. As "spinsterhood" approached, at the "ripe old age" of 18, Varina was married off to the widower Jefferson Davis, over twenty years her senior and still eight years in mourning for his first wife. Varina later noted, "Back then, a good marriage did not require love: a good marriage meant security." She planned to settle on the Davis Mississippi plantation, but her husband chose a political career as a member of the Federal House, Senate and finally Secretary of War. The couple lived in Washington, DC for over 15 years where Varina, because of her wit, charm and education, became friend and hostess to Presidents and Congressmen of the day. After the Mexican American War, she refused to join her war-hero husband back in DC until he changed his will to make her the beneficiary of his estate. She finally won her cause. When the Civil War began and her husband became the first and last President of the Confederacy, she reluctantly moved with their children to the Grey House in Richmond. She loathed Richmond and was never accepted by the local high society. She viewed slavery as the "strangeness of owning people" since she treated "help" like members of her family. She believed that the South was unprepared for conflict and queried of the Confederacy, "Is it self-government or self-immolation we are testing?" As Richmond burned, she fled with her children and a few loyal servants toward Florida and ultimately planned an escape to Cuba. It was not meant to be: Jefferson was captured and later imprisoned near DC for two years and she was "imprisoned" for a year in Savannah. After the war, she lived mainly apart from her husband in Europe and with friends throughout the South. Upon his death, she completed his memoirs. She supported herself in New York City by writing articles for the New York World. She befriended Julia Grant, wife of Ulysses Grant, and the women were often seen in public to promote further reconciliation within a healing nation. Varina openly asserted, "The right side won."

Frazier is a master wordsmith. He unwinds Varina's life backwards, from the end of her life forward, primarily using fictional conversation. Frazier's prose captures not only the lushness and false "civility" of the slave-propelled agricultural economy of the Antebellum South, but also the ravaged landscape and desperate population after Sherman's march to the sea. Even better are Frazier's delicate forays into the psyches of post-war Jefferson and Varina. The first reveals a delusional, old man failing both mentally and physically quite emotionally detached from his wife of almost fifty years. The other is a person with a will of steel who fulfills her obligations, mourns the death of her children and creates a new life. She wrote, "It is a frightful thing to drop out of one's place in the world and never find it again.." Thanks to a gifted author, the reader becomes acquainted with an important American feminist who was, in many ways, ahead of her time.