Title: Intelligent, Smartly Written, Humorous Anthropological Study
Product review: Horwitz' commentary on his travels and observations of interesting people and institutionalized mythology of southern US with regard to War Between the States is both a lesson in aspects of deep south culture and empirical study of attitudes regarding wounds that won't heal. In light of such ongoing, centuries old flashpoints in Europe, Asia, and Africa, Horwitz' novel highlights the similarities between cultural antagonisms here and there and helps us to understand the inconceivable lack of tolerance for different ideas that lead to such inhumanity as that in Bosnia, Iraq, Ireland, etc. A really valuable analogy for understanding our homes, our country, our world. His ability to portray his subjects as human, therefore imperfect, with at once both a serious and humorous side, and make his reader both shudder and snicker, is a tribute to his talent as a writer. I only wish the book were longer.
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