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In 1863, as the Warfare Between the Says creeps undoubtedly toward its bloody realization, previous Kentucky slave Britt Johnson endeavors west into unknown territory along with his partner, Mary, and their three children, searching for a life and another. But their dreams are abruptly shattered by a brutal Indian raid upon the Johnsons' settlement deal while Britt is away building a business. Time for find his friends and neighbors slain or captured, his eldest boy dead, his beloved and severely damaged Mary enslaved, and his staying children absorbed into an alien world that won't relinquish its hold on them, the heartsick freedman vows not to rest until his family is complete again. A soaring work of the thoughts based on oral histories of the post-Civil Warfare years in North Tx, Paulette Jiles's The Color of Lightning reaches once a romantic check out the hearts and desires of tragically flawed humans and a courageous reexamination of your dark American history.