The release date for the English version of 'Booth' by
Karen Joy Fowler is Mar 2022. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
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The bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves and Man Booker finalist brings us a personal and epic book about the family behind one of the most notorious people in American history, John Wilkes Booth.
A clandestine family settles into a hidden cabin in 1822, around thirty miles northeast of Baltimore. Over the following sixteen years, they cultivate, conceal, and have 10 children. In addition to being the family's primary provider and renowned Shakespearean actor, Junius Booth is also a man of frightening instability and captivating skill. As the nation dwindles yearly and approaches the brink of secession and civil unrest, the children come one by one.
The Booths come out of hiding to solidify their status as one of the nation's most prominent theatrical families as the global tone changes. However, behind the scenes of the several stages they have adorned, a string of scandals, familial victories, and criminal misfortunes start to take their toll, leaving the sober siblings of John Wilkes Booth to face the reality behind the damagingly false promise of an early prophesy.
Booth is a striking depiction of a nation undergoing profound transformation and an evocative investigation of the bonds that unite and divide a family.