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April 30, 2019

“Breathtakingly honest, this story is a bridge to empathy and a bright beacon of hope. I’m telling everyone to read this book.”

–Lisa Genova

The Reluctant Patriot: A Novel Based on a True Story of the Civil War in Tennessee

By Susan Lohafer
Aubade Publishing
284 pages
$19.95

“In the course of his war, he will lose a son, plumb a daughter’s love, and form a strange bond with the region’s most controversial figure, W. G. Brownlow. Unremarked by history, Harry experienced, firsthand, the serial betrayals and surprising loyalties of a bloody war on his doorstep. How he survived — and what he became — is a suspenseful and moving tale of a soul’s reformation.”

~from the publisher

The Valedictorian of Being Dead