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Sep 12, 2023 · Paulette Jiles was born in Salem, Missouri, in the Missouri Ozarks. Raised in small towns in both south and central Missouri, she attended three different high schools, an exhausting process of social dislocation and fashion wobbles, and with relief graduated from the University of Missouri (KC) in Romance Languages.
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For eighteen-year-old Adair Colley, it is a nightmare that tears apart her family. 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. But young Adair finds that love can live even in a place of horror and despair.
Jan 7, 2020 · Realize that you can’t figure out the ghost’s motives in your head. Let go of obsessive thoughts, and allow yourself to feel both sadness and anger, without falling into shame. Give yourself ...
Feb 5, 2002 · In Enemy Women Jiles tells the story of the Civil War in the Ozarks of the southeastern corner of Missouri. She tells her tale mostly through the story of Adair Colley, an 18 year old whose family is torn apart by the war. Much changes in the whole country during this war, and the change in Adair's life is the carnage in microcosm.
Nov 11, 2008 · Jiles, Paulette. Paulette Jiles, poet, novelist, playwright, journalist (b at Salem, Mo 1943). A graduate, in Spanish literature, of the University of Illinois, Paulette Jiles came to Canada in 1969. After a group of her poems appeared in Mindscapes (1971), she published Waterloo Express (1973) before moving to the North for 10 years to work as ...
Apr 14, 2020 · “It was all he had against a chaotic world,” Jiles writes, “and the mindlessness of a losing war, against corruption, thievery, cowardice, incompetence, cactus, gunsmoke, and hominy ...
Apr 9, 2013 · edit data. Paulette Jiles is an American poet and novelist. Born in Salem, Missouri, she was educated at the University of Missouri with a degree in Romance Lanugages. Jiles lives in the Texas Hill Country on a small ranch.
