Everything you need to understand or teach Booth by Karen Joy Fowler.
As much exegesis as fiction, Karen Joy Fowler's Booth is a step-by-step accounting of the lives of the various siblings of John Wilkes Booth, the man infamous for his assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. Told from the perspectives of three Booth siblings—Edwin, Asia, and Rosalie—the novel takes place in and around the American Mid-Atlantic in the years leading up to and following the American Civil War, and functions both as a periscope into this era of American history and a deep character study of the dysfunctional family behind the assassin of the sixteenth president. Fowler touches on themes of legacy, jealousy, feminism, race, and theater.
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