The Twelve-Mile Straight : a novel /
Henderson, Eleanor,
The Twelve-Mile Straight : a novel / Eleanor Henderson. - First edition. - 543 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
"Novel set in the south during the Great Depression that takes an entirely fresh view on big American themes-- race, heredity, inequality, shame-- set in a time of financial crisis and racialized violence"-- 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.
9780062422088 0062422081
2016048070
Depressions--Southern States--1929--Fiction.
Southern States--Race relations--History--20th century--Fiction.
Southern States--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
The Twelve-Mile Straight : a novel / Eleanor Henderson. - First edition. - 543 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
"Novel set in the south during the Great Depression that takes an entirely fresh view on big American themes-- race, heredity, inequality, shame-- set in a time of financial crisis and racialized violence"-- 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.
9780062422088 0062422081
2016048070
Depressions--Southern States--1929--Fiction.
Southern States--Race relations--History--20th century--Fiction.
Southern States--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction.
Historical fiction.