The Twelve-Mile Straight, a novel, Eleanor Henderson
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Label
The Twelve-Mile Straight, a novel, Eleanor Henderson
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary Form
novels
Main title
The Twelve-Mile Straight
Oclc number
966608853
Responsibility statement
Eleanor Henderson
Sub title
a novel
Summary
"Novel set in the south during the Great Depression that takes an entirely fresh view on big American themes-- race, heredity, inequality, shame-- set in a time of financial crisis and racialized violence"--, Provided by publisher"Cotton County, Georgia, 1930: In a house full of secrets, two babies - one light-skinned, the other dark - are born to Elma Jesup, a white sharecropper's daughter. Accused of her rape, field hand Genus Jackson is lynched and dragged behind a truck down the road to the nearby town. In the aftermath, the farm's inhabitants are forced to contend with their complicity in a series of events that left a man dead and a family irrevocably fractured. Tackling themes of racialized violence, social division, and financial crisis, The Twelve-Mile Straight is a magnificent tour de force." -- back cover