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William Morrow
June 2017
On Sale: June 20, 2017
240 pages
ISBN: 0062409212
EAN: 9780062409218
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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