Fiction: ‘Chenneville’ by Paulette Jiles

For some years Paulette Jiles has labored over a fertile stretch of history, setting her novels in the American West amid the anarchy of Reconstruction. In a succession of charismatic page-turners, including “The Color of Lightning” (2009) and “News of the World” (2016), the lawlessness of the…

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