Cousins

by Paulette Jiles

The author draws on memories from her own youth as she describes her meeting with Jim Johnson, a retired army officer, at a horse-trading show in Missouri, and their subsequent journey through the southern states in search of Jiles' extended family

Genres: Memoir

365 pages, Hardcover

First published March 3, 1992

About the author

Paulette Kay Jiles was an American poet, memoirist and novelist.

Reviews

[Trudy Ackerblade · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent. Paulette is one of my favorite authors. This is a biography of her travels across the country to interview all of her cousins, the zany and the not so zany. She travels in a broken down motor home with a man she recently met on a camping trip. Their crazy relationship just adds more fun.
I reccomend this book.

[Shari Reimer · Rating 3 out of 5]

I enjoyed the story in between the interviews of all the cousins more than the interviews. The stories of the cousins became a bit repetitive and also were written just as they spoke it which sometimes made it hard to read.

[Zoann · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very uneven book. Parts were the elegant and unusual writer I know from Jiles' other books, parts were uninteresting (except perhaps to the author's family) recitations of family history from her cousins.

[Jennifer · Rating 1 out of 5]

Meandering. Unfocused. Dull.

[Mills College Library]

813.54 J613c 1991