True Grit

by Charles Portis

It's western #4 for the year!

Fourteen-year-old Mattie Ross has spunk. And she's going to need it, if she wants to capture (and kill) the man who murdered her father.

Tom Chaney will not be easy to catch, but Mattie will enlist the help of US Marshal Reuben "Rooster" Cogburn. Why Cogburn? Because they say he has "grit." Turns out that Mattie has just as much grit as Cogburn does. True grit.

Short, quick, and spunky, just like the novel's protagonist.

4/19/09