Girl believes she is Kiowa, has no desire to live with white relatives she has never met. He is offered money to return a 10-year-old white girl kidnapped by the Kiowa. The story seems simple enough: Grizzled ex-army captain currently makes his living by reading newspapers to audiences across Texas. The first book I read by Paulette Jiles was a recent one: NEWS OF THE WORLD. That was before I discovered Paulette Jiles. Yes, I still read a lot, but not so much compulsively focusing on some new author I’d just stumbled across. Later, as a busy adult, my obsession with authors subsided. I did the same with Kurt Vonnegut, James Lee Burke, and Toni Morrison, to name a few. When I discovered EAST OF EDEN, for example, I rushed to read everything Steinbeck. Years ago, in high school and college, it was frequent that I would fall in love with an author.
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