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Author Henderson, Eleanor, author.

Title The twelve-mile straight / Eleanor Henderson.

Edition First edition.
Publication Info. New York : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2017]
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1813249~S1
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 95th Street Adult Fiction  F HENDERSO    AVAILABLE
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Description 543 pages ; 24 cm
Summary "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
Subject Southern States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Southern States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Depressions -- 1929 -- Southern States -- Fiction.
Genre Historical fiction.
ISBN 9780062422088 (hardcover)
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