Paulette Jiles
Chenneville: A Novel of Murder, Loss, and Vengeance
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John Chenneville, a Union soldier, emerges from a months-long coma, discovering the Civil War has ended. He had suffered a severe brain injury ...Read Review
Simon the Fiddler
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Simon Boudin, a Southerner by birth, doesn’t care about the Civil War, nearing its bloody end in March 1865. An itinerant fiddler who ...Read Review
News of the World
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I loved this slim, profoundly moving book so much that, as soon as I finished it, I wanted to read it again. Paulette ...Read Review
The Color of Lightning
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Freedman Britt Johnson, his wife, and their three children left their home in Kentucky to homestead on the North Texas plains at the ...Read Review
Stormy Weather
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This is the second novel by Paulette Jiles, a poet and memoirist. Her first novel, Enemy Women, which won a Canadian fiction award, ...Read Review
Enemy Women
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Most Americans know why the Civil War was fought and can name some of the battles or identify major figures on both sides. ...Read Review