What is anybody reading nowadays? I’m mentioning one here that might interest some. “News of the World” by Paulette Jiles tells a story of a man in post-Civil War days who travels through Texas reading newspaper articles to audiences hungry for news. He is the one who informs them that the 15th Amendment grants African American men the right to vote.
Enter a ten-year-old white girl who’d been captured by Kiowa Indians six years previously and raised as one of their own but who bounty hunters have recaptured. The girl gets pawned off on the news reader who must tolerate three weeks with the girl as he fulfills his promise to return her home to her real parents.
Upon first opening the book I noticed she does not use quotation marks, much like Cormac McCarthy. One gets over that quirk easily and can continue reading a satisfying story. And I repeat the opening line - what is anybody reading nowadays?
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