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Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain

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Cold Mountain is a book written by Charles Frazier in 1997. The book starts off as Inman( the main charter) is in a hospital in Virginia healing from his injuries. He is depressed by what he saw while fighting in the army wants to see Ada, the woman he loves. One day send a letter to Ada that he is coming back home. That night, he leaves to go back to North Carolina. Inman and Ada knew each other for a little time before Inman left for the war. His hope of seeing Ada again makes Inman desert the army and go on his back.
Ada Inman’s lover in the story and half of the book is in her POV. Ada is Smart can read and private. The story starts a couple years after she goes to Cold Mountain. She’s felt hardship and loss of her father’s death and because

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