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The Color of Lightning
by Paulette Jiles
He sat quietly in the ruin of his own personal philosophies as if they were smoking timbers in a heap and felt as if he had just murdered someone, or perhaps abandoned someone in a burning building.
I love when a book makes you think about the things you think you know in a whole new light. Paulette Jiles does just that in The Color of Lightning, a novel based on the true life of freed slave Brit Johnson, whose wife and family are captured by Indians while living in Texas. Her prose is beautiful, harsh, and sometimes difficult to read, but serves to illustrate the conflict and struggle of diverse cultures. Forget your romantic notions of the American west and follow Jiles into this exploration of the tragic realities of our history with Native Americans. Highly recommended but be prepared for some difficult passages.
I love when a book makes you think about the things you think you know in a whole new light. Paulette Jiles does just that in The Color of Lightning, a novel based on the true life of freed slave Brit Johnson, whose wife and family are captured by Indians while living in Texas. Her prose is beautiful, harsh, and sometimes difficult to read, but serves to illustrate the conflict and struggle of diverse cultures. Forget your romantic notions of the American west and follow Jiles into this exploration of the tragic realities of our history with Native Americans. Highly recommended but be prepared for some difficult passages.