Background
News of the world was published in October of 2016 and will apparently be made into a movie coming out this December. (Tom Hanks of all people.) It is the story of old man who goes from town to town reading the news to people who largely can’t read. He tends to look after himself but ends up getting stuck with a young girl who was rescued from the Indians. (They had kidnapped her as a young child.) He finds himself trying to get her back home and she just wants to get back to the tribe who took her.
My Thoughts
It was a compelling story and I made it through it pretty quickly. It was a reminder of a time in our country when lawlessness was pretty much rampant and protection was your own responsibility.
Recommendation
It was worth the read.