I highly recommend The Color of Lightning - Paulette Jiles

japple

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Wed Jul-15-09 08:37 AM
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I highly recommend The Color of Lightning - Paulette Jiles

Just finished this book and I can't say enough good about it. It's a great adventure, in the same vein as Lonesome Dove, about a free black man who travels with his family to from KY to TX in 1863 to start a freight hauling business. His wife and children are captured by Comanche and Kiowa and he sets off to rescue them. It is based on oral histories of the post-Civil War years in North Texas.

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Wed Jul-15-09 11:09 AM
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1. Thanks! I keep meaning to read Jiles' "Enemy Women," but I haven't yet.

Edited on Wed Jul-15-09 11:09 AM by BlueIris

Maybe I'll be able to settle into this one instead.

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japple

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Wed Jul-15-09 04:32 PM
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2. Hi, BI. I also read Enemy Women and thought it was good, but

The Color of Lightning was much more compelling, IMHO. If you like historical fiction, I highly recommend Elizabeth Crook's The Night Journal. Happy reading--keeps us grounded, no?

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