Read September 2021 - Zoom Reading Circle
Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd performs live readings of newspapers throughout small northern Texas towns. After one reading he is offered money to deliver a young girl to her relatives near San Antonio and he accepts. The girl, Johanna, was kidnapped by Kiowa raiders 4 years earlier after he family was killed and she no longer remembers that life. She is determined to escape and return to the only people she has ever known, the Kiowa. But throughout the treacherous journey south the Captain and the girl, Johanna, eventually bond as they escape dangers of all kinds. The 71 year old Captain is determined to get the 10 year old girl safely to her long lost relatives, but there will be more decisions for him to make when they reach their destination. Throughout my reading of this book I saw and heard Captain Kidd as Tom Hanks (the movie had been released, although I have yet to see it.)
Quotes from book...
More than ever knowing in his fragile bones that it was the duty of men who aspired to the condition of humanity to protect children and kill for them if necessary.
Life was not safe and nothing could make it so, neither fashionable dresses nor bank accounts. The baseline of human life was courage.
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