Overview
News of the World*, a 2016 historical fiction novel by Paulette Jiles, is set in post-Civil War Texas. The story follows Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd, a 70-year-old veteran and news reader who travels through Texas giving public readings. He agrees to return a 10-year-old Kiowa captive, Johanna Leonberger, to her aunt and uncle after she lived with the warriors who killed her parents