News of the World
★★★★★Read Nov 11, 2018
A sweet book, a bit as if Cormac McCarthy wrote gentle prose about kindness. Excellently drawn characters and an unlikely buddy / heroic journey story set in a richly researched Reconstruction Texas. Much enjoyed all the details. The book is a bit claustrophobic in having only the two main characters, but it's a small story and well told.
Goodreads readers give it 4.08★, from 115,072 ratings. I gave it 3★, −1.1, where I'm usually −0.9: I rated it like most.
Readers call it Historical Fiction, Westerns, Historical, Literary Fiction, Adventure.
Won Writers' League of Texas Book Award in Fiction 2016, Texas Institute of Letters 2017.
Also nominated for National Book Award 2016, Spur Award 2017, Goodreads Choice Award 2016, RUSA CODES Reading List 2017.