Cold Mountain By Charles Frazier

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A wounded Confederate soldier, Inman, deserts the army and undertakes a perilous journey home to Cold Mountain, North Carolina, to reunite with Ada, the woman he loves. Set against the closing months of the American Civil War, the novel alternates between Inman's odyssey through a devastated landscape and Ada's struggle to keep her father's farm alive with the help of a resourceful young drifter, Ruby.