Blue Asylum

A woman falls in love with a wounded Civil War solider in this “fine novel embroidered with rich imagery” about the line between sanity and madness ( Kirkus Reviews ).   When Virginia plantation wife Iris Dunleavy is put on trial and convicted of madness, she knows the real criminal is her husband. After all, the only thing she’s guilty of is disagreeing with him on notions of justice, cruelty, and property.   Sent away to a remote Florida island, Iris meets an odd collection of reside