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REVIEWS: News Of The World
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NY Times
The Washington Post
GoodReads
Book Companion
National Book Award Finalist—Fiction. In the aftermath of
the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to
transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in
this exquisitely rendered, morally complex, multilayered novel
of historical fiction from the author of Enemy Women that
explores the boundaries of family, responsibility, honor, and
trust. In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd
travels through northern Texas, giving live readings from
newspapers to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. In
Wichita Falls, he is offered a $50 gold piece to deliver a young
orphan to her relatives in San Antonio. An elderly widower who
has lived through three wars and fought in two of them, the
captain enjoys his rootless, solitary existence. A respectable
man, Captain Kidd is faced with a terrible choice: abandon the
girl to her fate or become—in the eyes of the law—a kidnapper
himself.
Characters: 55. Amazon rating: 4 1/2 stars. Genre: Historical
Fiction.
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