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William Morrow
October 2016
On Sale: October 4, 2016
Featuring: Jefferson Kyle Kidd; Johanna
224 pages
ISBN: 0062409204
EAN: 9780062409201
Kindle: B01122BZNK
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Historical
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.
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