01321cam a2200289 4500 343271603 TxAuBib 20180330120000.0 170709s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780062405982 0062405985 (OCoLC)993420827 TxAuBib Frazier, Charles. Varina : a novel / Charles Frazier. First edition. New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018] 356 pages ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (page 356). Her marriage prospects limited, teenage Varina Howell agrees to wed the much-older widower Jefferson Davis, with whom she expects the secure life of a Mississippi landowner. Davis instead pursues a career in politics and is eventually appointed president of the Confederacy, placing Varina at the white-hot center of one of the darkest moments in American history. 20180330. Davis, Varina, 1826-1906 Fiction. Man-woman relationships Fiction. United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Fiction. Historical fiction. Biographical fiction.