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North and south john jakes book6/30/2023 Orry and George graduate from West Point and go on fight in the Mexican-American war together. There was fiery rhetoric on both sides of the Mason/Dixon, and it was kind of scandalous for a Yankee and a Southron to be hanging out. Even prior to the outbreak of the American Civil War, tensions ran high between the North and the South. Their friendship isn’t without struggle though. Though Orry hails from a slave-owning plantation in South Carolina and George’s family owns an iron company in Pennsylvania, the two strike a fast friendship. Orry Main and George Hazard meet as cadets at West Point in the 1840s. (I love you, vacation days!) North and South begins a trilogy of books that tell the epic tale of the Mains and the Hazards. Family scandal and treachery will do that to you… As well as vacation days. Weighing in at 812 pages, I was shocked to get through it in less than a week. She was all, “Katie, it’s like if The Pillars of the Earth was set during the Civil War.” And I was all, “Ooooooh, that sounds wonderful.” Technically, I finished this after midnight on New Year’s Eve, so I’m going to say it counts as my first official read of 2014. My friend Lauren from Filing Jointly demanded that I read North and South by John Jakes. JanuKatie Words for Worms Civil War, Coming of Age, Historical Fiction 31
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