The South Archives - Novel Visits https://novelvisits.com/tag/the-south/ Wed, 20 Sep 2017 04:16:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 The Twelve-Mile Straight by Eleanor Henderson | Review https://novelvisits.com/twelve-mile-straight-eleanor-henderson-review/ https://novelvisits.com/twelve-mile-straight-eleanor-henderson-review/#comments Wed, 20 Sep 2017 10:00:45 +0000 http://www.novelvisits.com/?p=3357 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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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 hand Genus Jackson is lynched and dragged behind a truck down the Twelve-Mile Straight, 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.”…

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