Christopher Tilghman is the author of the short-story collections In a Father's Place, and The Way People Run, and several novels, including Mason's Retreat and Thomas and Beal in the Midi. Currently the director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Virginia, he and his wife, the writer Caroline Preston, live in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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A masterful novel that confronts the dilemmas of race, family, and forbidden love in the wake of America's Civil War Fifteen years after the publication of his acclaimed novel Mason's Retreat, Christopher Tilghman returns to the Mason family and the Ch... SEE MORE