All Other Nights: A Novel by Dara Horn

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Great historical fiction about a Jewish Union spy during the Civil War (more fiction than history). Jacob Rappaport, the main character, spends most of the novel working for the Union secret service behind enemy lines. Even though the book is set in the middle of a huge event, it is really much more about Jacob than the Civil War. He lets life take him where it will and grows up quite a bit along the way. We don't get epic stories of huge battles.  Instead we see how wartime is affecting Jewish families in the south and how it changes the path of Jacob's life.

This is the second novel of Dara Horn's that I have read and she is quickly becoming one of my favorite authors.

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