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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 raping Elma, field hand Genus Jackson is lynched and dragged behind a truck down the Twelve-Mile Straight, the road to the nearest 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.
Despite the prying eyes and curious whispers of the townspeople, Elma begins to raise her babies as best she can, under the roof of her mercurial father, Juke, and with the help of Nan, the young black housekeeper who is as close to Elma as a sister. But soon it becomes clear that the ties that bind all of them together are more intricate than any could have ever imagined. As startling revelations mount, a web of lies begins to collapse around the family, destabilizing their precarious world and forcing all to reckon with the painful truth.
New York Times bestselling author Eleanor Henderson has returned with an audacious American epic that combines the intimacy of a family drama with the staggering presence of a great Southern saga. Set in the years of the Depression and Prohibition, and tackling themes of racialized violence, social division, and financial crisis, The Twelve-Mile Straight is a startlingly timely, emotionally resonant, and magnificent tour de force.
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- Title The Twelve-Mile Straight
- Author Eleanor Henderson
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 560
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Ecco Press, New York
- Date 2017
- ISBN 9780062422088 / 0062422081
- Weight 1.75 lbs (0.79 kg)
- Dimensions 9.4 x 6.3 x 1.7 in (23.88 x 16.00 x 4.32 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: Medieval (500-1453) Studies
- Cultural Region: South
- Demographic Orientation: Rural
- Demographic Orientation: Small Town
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, Southern States - Race relations - History -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2016048070
- Dewey Decimal Code 813.6
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Citations
- Booklist, 08/01/2017, Page 36
- Kirkus Reviews, 07/01/2017, Page 0
- Library Journal, 08/01/2017, Page 83
- Library Journal Prepub Alert, 04/15/2017, Page 60
- Publishers Weekly, 07/17/2017, Page 0
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