Suite Harmonic

by Emily Meier

In the late 1850’s, a young Irishman, having abandoned his studies for the priesthood, arrives in New Harmony, Indiana, in the afterglow of its utopian experiment and soon finds himself both in love with the town’s most alluring woman and immersed in the horrifying violence of war. Told with a counterpointing narrative on the homefront and shaped from a wealth of national and local documents, Suite Harmonic: A Civil War Novel of Rediscovery brings a rare intensity and accuracy to an infantryman’s battlefield experience and an immigrant’s fraught quest to find his place in a new land.

556 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 30, 2011

About the author

Emily Meier is an award-winning fiction writer, who has just completed a six-book publishing project of previously published and unpublished work through Sky Spinner Press. Her writing, which has been supported with fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Minnesota State Arts Board, and a Loft-McKnight fiction award, includes stories that have won national fiction contests. The book titles are SUITE HARMONIC: A Civil War Novel of Rediscovery; TIME STAMP: A Novel; IN THE LAND OF THE DINOSAUR: Ten Stories and a Novella; THE SECOND MAGICIAN'S TALE; WATCHING OKSANA and Other Stories AND CLARE, LOVING: A Novel in Three Novellas. Her website, http://emilymeier.com, contains extensive information on all the books including printed and read excerpts and music links. There is also an extensive interview section that covers all aspects of a writing life.