03220cam a2200481 i 4500 278323468 TxAuBib 20161115120000.0 151022s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2015041173 9780062409201 0062409204 TxAuBib rda Jiles, Paulette. News of the world [NEW] : a novel / Paulette Jiles. First edition. New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2016] ℗2016. 213 pages ; 20 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Color map on lining paper. "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. An elderly widower who has lived through three wars and fought in two of them, the captain enjoys his rootless, solitary existence. In Wichita Falls, he is offered a $50 gold piece to deliver a young orphan to her relatives in San Antonio. 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. Recently rescued by the U.S. army, the ten-year-old has once again been torn away from the only home she knows. Their 400-mile journey south through unsettled territory and unforgiving terrain proves difficult and at times dangerous. 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, forming a bond that marks the difference between life and death in this treacherous land. Arriving in San Antonio, the reunion is neither happy nor welcome. The captain must hand Johanna over to an aunt and uncle she does not remember--strangers who regard her as an unwanted burden. 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"-- Provided by publisher. 20161115. 1800-1899. Voyages and travels Fiction. Widowers Fiction. Orphans Fiction. Kiowa Indians Fiction. FICTION / Historical. FICTION / Literary. FICTION / General. Kiowa Indians. Orphans. Voyages and travels. Widowers. United States History 19th century Fiction. United States. Historical fiction. Fiction. History.