A story of courage and honor and the truth that these two things are often the possession of even the unlikeliest people.

If you read News of the World, youve seen that Jiles has a gift for slim volumes. In the end, he finds he must return her to relatives who don’t want her, even though he and the girl have become trusting friends. Saturdays pick is the new book from Paulette Jiles, SIMON THD FIDDLER. Not a typical romantic heroine, Adair has the saucy naïveté of an unsophisticated. Bandits and Comanche raids and violent weather make as many difficulties as the ten-year old girl who can’t speak English, eats with her hands and knows how to use a revolver. Poet and memoirist Jiles ( North Spirit) has written a striking debut novel whose tone lingers poignantly. The old man and the ten-year-old start out on a hazardous journey, no less risky because the girl considers herself now a Kiowa and does not have the slightest desire to return. If you think this is a great sentence, many of my criticisms of Paulette Jiles’ novel in my review will not apply to you as a reader. In Wichita Falls, he is asked to return a captive girl to her relatives near San Antonio, 400 miles to the south. Paulette Jiles: News of the World Jiles, Paulette (2016), News of the World, William Morrow ISBN 978-0-06-240920-1 Some people were born unsupplied with a human conscience and those people needed killing. Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels from town to town giving readings from the latest newspapers, bringing the news of the world to isolated towns on the Texas frontier. In the aftermath of the American Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this morally complex, multi-layered novel of historical fiction from the author of Enemy Women that explores the boundaries of family, responsibility, honor, and trust. Poet and novelist Paulette Jiles latest book is once again set in the post-Civil War era, a time that she memorably evoked in previous works like The Color.

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