Winning the National Book Award, staying on the bestseller list for 61 weeks, and selling over 3 million copies are just some of the accolades Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier received. Published in 1997, this book is about a Confederate soldier named Inman, who was wounded after fighting at Petersburg, and walks back home in the Blue Ridge mountains. His journey brings him into close contact with slaves, marauders, bounty hunters, witches, and others seeking to help and hurt him; meanwhile, his love, Ada, is at home trying to revive her father's struggling farm and learn to survive on her own.