I'll confess that I quite probably understood very little of the background behind this but I still really enjoyed this book. ( )

Like crawling inside a madman's head — a madman who knows that it is you and me who fought and continue to fight a great civil war. A civil war between north and south, the paid and the unpaid, icefields and the prairie, buffalo stampedes and alligator plagues, tradition and modernity, fathers and sons, life and death. In nightmare streams of incantation, oration, and recitations from a Bible you almost know, Kloss takes you on a journey down a stream of history — a current flowing with Mississippi mud, Nile floods, and the chill of the River Styx. ( )

Highly recommended ( )