Shenandoah

Shenandoah is a multi-generational story
of two Virginia families the MacAlpines
and Ballantinesin the first half of the 20th
Century. Through the lenses of heredity
and environment, the novel examines
how human evolution slowly progresses
by the combination, recombination
and reappearance of traits. Randolph
MacAlpine, scion of these two families,
personifies this process of change.
Within this seemingly random variation,
there is an order and pattern beneath
the surface of the human struggles of
war, adversity, the drive to procreate and
ultimately to transcend. Above all, the
human soul is ever at the center of this
evolutionary unfolding.