Rita Mae Brown discusses her novel, “High Hearts.” She begins by explaining that her book is about the Civil War told from a woman’s point of view. She talks about how she modeled the book's characters after people she knows in real life. She describes how her main character decides to cross-dress as a man to be able to fight in the war. Brown says that she researched actual slave narratives to give her book an authentic voice. She ends the interview by describing the dynamics of family members’ relationships with one another.
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