Enemy Women($9.79Value)

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From the Author of the National Book Award Finalist News of the World Good Morning America Book Club Pick For the Colleys of southeastern Missouri, the War between the States is a plague that threatens devastation, despite the family’s avowed neutrality. For eighteen-year-old Adair Colley, it is a nightmare that tears apart her family and forces her and her sisters to flee. The treachery of a fellow traveler, however, brings about her arrest, and she is caged with the criminal and deranged in a filthy women’s prison. But young Adair finds that love can live even in a place of horror and despair. Her interrogator, a Union major, falls in love with her and vows to return for her when the fighting is over. Before he leaves for battle, he bestows upon her a precious gift: freedom. Now an escaped "enemy woman," Adair must make her harrowing way south buoyed by a promise . . . seeking a home and a family that may be nothing more than a memory. “Jiles has created an unsentimental yet tender world of destruction, despair, and hope that’s a joy to inhabit.” - Entertainment Weekly “An impressive first novel ... Jile’s skill as a poet shine throughout the novel as her light, brush-stroke sentences constantly surprise with their alternating beauty, humor, and horror.” - San Francisco Chronicle “Compelling ... Comparing Enemy Women and Cold Mountain doesn’t quite do Jile’s novel justice.” - Washington Post Book World “Comparing Enemy Women to Cold Mountain doesn’t quite do Jiles’s novel justice.” - Washington Post “You know what it means when there is Paulette Jiles inside? Be smart. Open the book.” - Gordon Lish “ENEMY WOMEN...has a Homeresque feel to it. Like something written by an old soul.” - Carolyn Chute “Jiles has created an unsentimental yet tender world of destruction, despair, and hope that’s a joy to inhabit.” - Entertainment Weekly “Jiles paints the struggles of the era with the same intensity as Charles Frazier’s 1997 bestseller Cold Mountain …” - People “Sure to be touted as a new COLD MOUNTAIN...stark, unsentimental, yet touching novel will not suffer in comparison.” - Publishers Weekly (starred review) “A remarkable debut… Splendid.” - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “…beautifully written passages…a real page-turner.” - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel “...[G]ifted Missouri historian...acutely portrays Missouri’s logistic misfortune as a hotbed of both Union and Confederate violence.” - Booklist “Enemy Women is all strength and poetry, as are history’s grandest ordinary women and extraordinary writing.” - Kaye Gibbons “ENEMY WOMEN deserves the Pulitzer Prize.” - Toronto Globe and Mail “I loved…it provides the greatest suspense a story can offer: will someone we’ve come to love persevere and prosper?” - Anna Quindlen “…remarkable happens...it becomes inspired… Adair becomes a storyteller in order to survive. And so - triumphantly - does Paulette Jiles.” - New York Times Book Review (cover) “This is a book with backbone, written with tough, haunting eloquence.” - New York Times For the Colleys of southeastern Missouri, the War between the States is a plague that threatens devastation, despite the family’s avowed neutrality. For eighteen-year-old Adair Colley, it is a nightmare that tears apart her family and forces her and her sisters to flee. The treachery of a fellow traveler, however, brings about her arrest, and she is caged with the criminal and deranged in a filthy women’s prison. But young Adair finds that love can live even in a place of horror and despair. Her interrogator, a Union major, falls in love with her and vows to return for her when the fighting is over. Before he leaves for battle, he bestows upon her a precious gift: freedom. Now an escaped "enemy woman," Adair must make her harrowing way south buoyed by a promise . . . seeking a home and a family that may be nothing more than a memory. Paulette Jiles is a novelist, poet, and memoirist. She is the author of  Cousins , a memoir, and the novels  Enemy Women, Stormy Weather, The Color of Lightning, Lighthouse Island , Simon the Fiddler, and  News of the World , which was a finalist for the 2016 National Book Award .  She lives on a ranch near San Antonio, Texas. Enemy Women By Paulette Jiles Harper Perennial Copyright ©2007 Paulette Jiles All right reserved. ISBN: 9780061337635 Chapter One Oct. 29, 1864 Dear Wife and Children; I take my pen with trembling hand to inform you that I have to be shot between 2 & 4 o'clock this evening. I have but few hours to remain in this unfriendly world. There are 6 of us sentenced to die in retaliation of 6 Union soldiers that was shot by Reeves men. My dear wife don't grieve after me. I want you to meet me in Heaven. I want you to teach the children piety, so that they may meet me at the right hand of God... I don't want you to let this bear on your mind any more than you can help, for you are now left to take care of my dear children. Tell them to remember their dea