{"product_id":"enemy-women-a-novel-isbn-9780066214443","title":"Enemy Women: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor the Colleys of southeastern Missouri, the War between the States is a plague that threatens devastation, despite the family’s avowed neutrality. For eighteen-year-old Adair Colley, it is a nightmare that tears apart her family and forces her and her sisters to flee. The treachery of a fellow traveler, however, brings about her arrest, and she is caged with the criminal and deranged in a filthy women’s prison.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut young Adair finds that love can live even in a place of horror and despair. Her interrogator, a Union major, falls in love with her and vows to return for her when the fighting is over. Before he leaves for battle, he bestows upon her a precious gift: freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow an escaped \"enemy woman,\" Adair must make her harrowing way south buoyed by a promise . . . seeking a home and a family that may be nothing more than a memory.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003eFor the Colleys of southeastern Missouri, the War between the States is a plague that threatens devastation, despite the family’s avowed neutrality. For eighteen-year-old Adair Colley, it is a nightmare that tears apart her family and forces her and her sisters to flee. The treachery of a fellow traveler, however, brings about her arrest, and she is caged with the criminal and deranged in a filthy women’s prison.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut young Adair finds that love can live even in a place of horror and despair. Her interrogator, a Union major, falls in love with her and vows to return for her when the fighting is over. Before he leaves for battle, he bestows upon her a precious gift: freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow an escaped \"enemy woman,\" Adair must make her harrowing way south buoyed by a promise . . . seeking a home and a family that may be nothing more than a memory.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“Jiles has created an unsentimental yet tender world of destruction, despair, and hope that’s a joy to inhabit.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“An impressive first novel ... Jile’s skill as a poet shine throughout the novel as her light, brush-stroke sentences constantly surprise with their alternating beauty, humor, and horror.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Compelling ... Comparing Enemy Women and Cold Mountain doesn’t quite do Jile’s novel justice.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWashington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Comparing Enemy Women to Cold Mountain doesn’t quite do Jiles’s novel justice.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“You know what it means when there is Paulette Jiles inside? Be smart. Open the book.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGordon Lish\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“ENEMY WOMEN...has a Homeresque feel to it. Like something written by an old soul.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCarolyn Chute\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Jiles has created an unsentimental yet tender world of destruction, despair, and hope that’s a joy to inhabit.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Jiles paints the struggles of the era with the same intensity as Charles Frazier’s 1997 bestseller Cold Mountain …” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Sure to be touted as a new COLD MOUNTAIN...stark, unsentimental, yet touching novel will not suffer in comparison.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A remarkable debut… Splendid.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“…beautifully written passages…a real page-turner.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMilwaukee Journal Sentinel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“...[G]ifted Missouri historian...acutely portrays Missouri’s logistic misfortune as a hotbed of both Union and Confederate violence.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Enemy Women is all strength and poetry, as are history’s grandest ordinary women and extraordinary writing.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKaye Gibbons\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“ENEMY WOMEN deserves the Pulitzer Prize.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eToronto Globe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I loved…it provides the greatest suspense a story can offer: will someone we’ve come to love persevere and prosper?” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnna Quindlen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“…remarkable happens...it becomes inspired… Adair becomes a storyteller in order to survive.  And so - triumphantly - does Paulette Jiles.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review (cover)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This is a book with backbone, written with tough, haunting eloquence.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"William Morrow","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44889292603621,"sku":"NP9780066214443","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780066214443.jpg?v=1730230943","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/enemy-women-a-novel-isbn-9780066214443","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}