The Twelve-Mile Straight a novel
Cotton County, Georgia, 1930. 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. Elma begins to raise...
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| 520 | |a Cotton County, Georgia, 1930. 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. Elma begins to raise her babies as best as she can, under the roof of her mercurial father, Juke, and with the help of Nan, the young black housekeeper. But the ties that bind all of them together are more intricate than any could have ever imagined, and a web of lies begins to collapse around the family. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references. | ||
| 651 | 0 | |a Southern States |x Race relations |x History |y 20th century |v Fiction. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Southern States |x Social life and customs |y 20th century |v Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Depressions |y 1929 |z Southern States |v Fiction. | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Historical fiction |z United States. | |
| 776 | 0 | 8 | |i Online version: |a Henderson, Eleanor. |t Twelve-mile straight. |b First edition. |d New York : Ecco, [2017] |z 9780062422101 |w (DLC) 2016058880 |
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