He travels Texas offering readings of the news. He's a bit restless, still on the road and She lives on a ranch near San Antonio, TX.Ĭaptain Kidd laid out the Boston Morning Journal on the lectern and began to read from the article on the Fifteenth Amendment.Ĭaptain Kidd is in his "golden years", left a widower with two grownĭaughters and grandchildren. She is the author of Cousins, a memoir, and the novels Enemy Women, Stormy Weather, The Color of Lightning, Lighthouse Island, and News of the World. Paulette Jiles is a novelist, poet, and memoirist. Published October 4th 2016 by William Morrow (first published March 29th 2016)
Exquisitely rendered and morally complex, News of the World is a brilliant work of historical fiction that explores the boundaries of family, responsibility, honor, and trust. 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. The captain must hand Johanna over to an aunt and uncle she does not remember-strangers who regard her as an unwanted burden. Johanna has forgotten the English language, tries to escape at every opportunity, throws away her shoes, and refuses to act “civilized.” Yet as the miles pass, the two lonely survivors tentatively begin to trust each other, forging a bond that marks the difference between life and death in this treacherous land.Īrriving in San Antonio, the reunion is neither happy nor welcome. Their 400-mile journey south through unsettled territory and unforgiving terrain proves difficult and at times dangerous. army, the ten-year-old has once again been torn away from the only home she knows. Four years earlier, a band of Kiowa raiders killed Johanna’s parents and sister sparing the little girl, they raised her as one of their own. 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. It is 1870 and Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. Longlisted for the National Book Award–Fiction
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