Description: "Jiles has created an unsentimental yet tender world of destruction, despair, and hope that's a joy to inhabit." - Entertainment Weekly "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." - San Francisco Chronicle "Compelling ... Comparing Enemy Women and Cold Mountain doesn't quite do Jile's novel justice." - Washington Post Book World "Comparing Enemy Women to Cold Mountain doesn't quite do Jiles's novel justice." - Washington Post "You know what it means when there is Paulette Jiles inside? Be smart. Open the book." - Gordon Lish "ENEMY WOMEN...has a Homeresque feel to it. Like something written by an old soul." - Carolyn Chute "Jiles has created an unsentimental yet tender world of destruction, despair, and hope that's a joy to inhabit." - Entertainment Weekly "Jiles paints the struggles of the era with the same intensity as Charles Frazier's 1997 bestseller Cold Mountain ..." - People "Sure to be touted as a new COLD MOUNTAIN...stark, unsentimental, yet touching novel will not suffer in comparison." - Publishers Weekly (starred review) "A remarkable debut... Splendid." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "...beautifully written passages...a real page-turner." - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel "...[G]ifted Missouri historian...acutely portrays Missouri's logistic misfortune as a hotbed of both Union and Confederate violence." - Booklist "Enemy Women is all strength and poetry, as are history's grandest ordinary women and extraordinary writing." - Kaye Gibbons "ENEMY WOMEN deserves the Pulitzer Prize." - Toronto Globe and Mail "I loved...it provides the greatest suspense a story can offer: will someone we've come to love persevere and prosper?" - Anna Quindlen "...remarkable happens...it becomes inspired... Adair becomes a storyteller in order to survive. And so - triumphantly - does Paulette Jiles." - New York Times Book Review (cover) "This is a book with backbone, written with tough, haunting eloquence." - New York Times

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