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Eleanor Henderson

The Twelve-Mile Straight by Eleanor Henderson | Review

September 20, 2017

The Twelve-Mile Straight by Eleanor Henderson - A southern saga set in 1930's Georgia following a sharecropper's family after their lie causes a black man's lynching.

The Twelve-Mile Straight by Eleanor Henderson Publisher: Ecco Release Date: September 12, 2017 Length: 560 pages Buy on Amazon {A Bit of Backstory} From the 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…

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Filed Under: By Title, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction Tagged With: 1930's, 2017, Family Story, Grade B, Historical Fiction, Prejudice, Rural Georgia, Southern Saga, The South

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