Peter Troy’s THE ODYSSEY OF ETHAN MCOWEN opens in mid-nineteenth century Ireland during the Famine when Ethan sails to America, later joins the famous Fighting 69th Civil War brigade, and falls in love with a Spanish society girl turned abolitionist, before their stories entwine with the perilous journeys of two slaves, Mary, a seamstress in Virginia, and Micah, a freedom-seeking carpenter and poet from South Carolina, and all four lives come together in upstate New York at the war’s end, to Doubleday’s Alison Callahan in a good deal by agent Marly Rusoff of Marly Rusoff & Associates. (NA)
