Auction Ends: Oct 28, 2022 09:00 PM EDT

Entertainment/Leisure

Be a character in #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Chris Bohjalian's 2025 Novel

Item Number: 196

Estimated Value: 2000 USD
Sold: 500 USD to guinnesslover

Number of Bids: 1 - Bid History

Item Description

You might be a cavalry officer in the Shenandoah Valley or a Vermont Widow in 1864. Or you might be a lawyer or activist in Richmond, Virginia in 20200.

Chris Bohjalian's novel is historical fiction that moves back and forth between the very recent past and the Civil War.

But he will use your name as a character in the novel. Support the Middlebury Rotary by buying a name for yourself or for someone you love.

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