of the movie True Grit with Rooster Cogburn and Mattie Ross. The beauty of this book was
the relationship between Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd (love the name) and Johanna. To read fiction is to inhabit a different world; and, the author brought Texas to life in the 1870s - the landscape, the uncertainty, the lawlessness, the adolescence of an emerging nation. What does the author Paulette Jiles read and recommends?
Here are 2 recommended selections from Paulette Jiles:
- Monticello by Sally Cabot Gunning (2016)......"Well researched and beautifully written... captivating."
- Only Killers and Thieves (2018)....."A gripping novel about conflict in the Australian outback at the turn of the century: beautifully done."