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I love this book and have shared it with several friends, all of whom found it equally good. Beautifully written, it presents a different view of the Civil War: that of a Southern woman who is captured, jailed, and finally makes her way home.
"Jiles carries her gifts with deft precision." The New York Times Book Review
"What a gifted writer Jiles is: she writes as naturally as breathing, yet with passages that soar into the most eloquent and beautiful poetry." Sharon Butala
"'Enemy Women', as all of Paulette Jiles's work, has a Homeresque feel to it. Like something written by an old soul. The wandering. Not just over earthly miles but through zones of sensuousness, epiphany, intuition, creatureliness, homely integrity, all that old, old, old true human stuff that goes in and out ot fashion and favor and takes a writer who is no-nonsense and hard-nosed to keep a hand on it. This is an ageless story that casts a different shadow than ordinary writers' earnest prostrated little tries at distinction. These are ageless truths. All is fair in love and war, as they say." Carolyn Chute
"Jiles carries her gifts with deft precision." The New York Times Book Review
"What a gifted writer Jiles is: she writes as naturally as breathing, yet with passages that soar into the most eloquent and beautiful poetry." Sharon Butala
"'Enemy Women', as all of Paulette Jiles's work, has a Homeresque feel to it. Like something written by an old soul. The wandering. Not just over earthly miles but through zones of sensuousness, epiphany, intuition, creatureliness, homely integrity, all that old, old, old true human stuff that goes in and out ot fashion and favor and takes a writer who is no-nonsense and hard-nosed to keep a hand on it. This is an ageless story that casts a different shadow than ordinary writers' earnest prostrated little tries at distinction. These are ageless truths. All is fair in love and war, as they say." Carolyn Chute
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