Varina : a novel
/ Charles Frazier
- New York : HarperCollins Publishers , 2018
- 356 p. ; 24 cm.
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 the Confederacy, placing Varina at the white-hot center of one of the darkest moments in American history.