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The Twelve-Mile Straight
The TwelveMile Straight
Author: Eleanor Henderson
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 inhabi...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780062422095
ISBN-10: 006242209X
Publication Date: 9/18/2018
Pages: 560
Edition: Reprint
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Publisher: Ecco
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio CD
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