The Wild Girl, Jim Fergus
The Wild Girl, Jim Fergus
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The Wild Girl

Author: Jim Fergus

Narrator: Christian Baskous

Unabridged: 12 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/01/2007

Synopsis

When Ned Giles is orphaned as a teenager, he heads West, hoping to leave his troubles behind by joining the 1932 Great Apache Expedition on their search for the young son of a wealthy Mexican landowner who was kidnapped by wild Apaches. But the expedition’s goal becomes compromised when they encounter a wild Apache girl in a Mexican jail cell, victim of a Mexican massacre of her tribe that has left her orphaned and unwilling to eat or speak. Ned’s growing feelings for the troubled girl soon force him to choose allegiances and make a decision that will haunt him forever. Based on historical fact, Jim Fergus takes listeners on a journey of magnificent sweep and heartbreaking consequence.

About Jim Fergus

Jim Fergus is an author whose first novel, One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd, won the 1999 Fiction of the Year Award from the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Association and has become a favorite selection of reading groups across the country. An international bestseller, One Thousand White Women was also on the French bestseller list for fifty-seven weeks and has sold well over 400,000 copies in that country. His articles, essays, interviews, and profiles have appeared in a wide variety of national magazines and newspapers.

About Christian Baskous

Christian Baskous is an AudioFile Earphones Award–winning narrator. His theatrical credits include numerous roles in the New York Shakespeare Festival, Circle in the Square, the Kennedy Center, and Theater for the New City, as well as other regional theaters. His film and television work includes appearances in Glory, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Law & Order, Swan’s Crossing, and Swift Justice.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Laurie (barksbooks)

This was a local reading group selection. Our group all enjoyed "One Thousand White Women" which is why we decided to splurge on the author's trade sized follow-up. We're usually to cheap and after reading this we all decided never to do it again. The beginning of the story immediately throws you int......more

Goodreads review by Hayley

I was blown away by how much I loved this book. While I found the prologue of the "author" (Ned Giles) a little unnecessary, I immediately lost myself in the world that Jim Fergus creates. Ned Giles is an immediately sympathetic character- a good guy, a nice guy, adrift in a difficult world. In spit......more

Goodreads review by Glenda

The story unfolds through journal entries, with Ned Giles heading out as a photojournalist on the Great Apache Expedition of 1932. He is seventeen years old, recently orphaned and trying to make a life for himself during the Depression. Giles tells the story of the expedition--the goal is to reclaim......more

Quotes

“A captivating tale.” Boston Globe

“A literary, but accessible tale…beautifully told.” Newsweek

“Fergus makes unforgettable characters move against vivid landscapes in this laudable encore.” Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“History, romance, and enough adventure to make us wish by the closing chapter that the story didn't have to end quite yet.” Rocky Mountain News

“The Wild Girl is a tragic life seen through the prism of time, hearbreak and distance, and the light has been refracted into something poignant and spiritual.” Atlanta Journal-Constitution

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