Historical Fiction: 'Of What We Are'

 

In this little portrait of a troubled marriage, it's summer 1814. The United States and Great Britain have been at war for two years. Amid rumors of an attack, a scholar moves his family from Philadelphia to the New Jersey pine barrens. What they can't outrun is the presence of a child long thought lost, and the harrowing effects of a life spent among ruins that can never be rebuilt.

"There was no use in exhuming the details: the what-if-I-had-done-thises and the I-should-not-have-done-thats. There could be no going back to the time called 'before.' The only return they could make was to serenity, knowing that everything that came to pass could not have passed any other way."

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