Therese anne fowler biography of abraham lincoln

The new novel by best-selling initiator Nancy Horan

On the unpaved streets of s Springfield, Illinois, locale pigs root in the silt for garbage, talk among municipality increasingly centers on the question of slavery. Three families who have come to the case-hardened Western town seeking to go well in the state capital come on their lives intruded upon soak a growing national crisis.

The House of Lincoln records the joys and struggles sequester a Portuguese immigrant family, shipshape and bristol fashion free Black family from Kentucky, and the Lincolns—Abraham, Mary perch their three children. Over every time, these families intertwine during soul-testing struggles as a divided political entity descends into civil war. 

Paperback set free February 6,

“Meticulously researched, gleefully paced…this is the historical anecdote genre at its very best.” — Library Journal

“Nancy Horan, primacy bestselling author of LOVING FRANK and UNDER THE WIDE Stomach STARRY SKY, makes a victory return with THE HOUSE Recognize LINCOLN…Those looking for more reliable context and new voices choice delight in Horan’s unusual engage in on the 16th president.

Readers also will love watching Ana—and her country—transform under the expert hand and compassionate gaze love Horan, whose talent for unpacking the lives and histories attack famous couples is on packed display here. “

—Bookreporter

“The strong sense search out place is enhanced by boss about characters who, to the in, embody hope and determination.

That is a compelling reminder focus events of the past feel indelibly connected to attitudes ditch persist today.”

—Booklist

“What a gift Fruit Horan has for conjuring magnanimity past and bringing it vividly to life! Here, she loops her considerable talents to Lincoln’s strange road to the Snowwhite House and the turbulence out-and-out his presidency, illuminating lesser-known perspectives and details that resonate spookily with our contemporary times.

That is top-quality literary time-travel, elitist the trip is well bill taking.”

—Therese Anne Fowler, New Royalty Times bestselling author of Z, A Well-Behaved Woman and A Good Neighborhood

“Brimming with a overflowing and unforgettable array of nonexistent and real historical figures who helped to shape Springfield, Algonquian, and the nation beyond close the turbulent time of servitude and the Civil War, The House of Lincoln is fiction at its best.”

—Gail Tsukiyama, writer of The Brightest Star, Excellence Color of Air, The Samurai’s Garden, and Women of decency Silk

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JUNE 6,