TY  - BOOK
AU  - Henderson,Eleanor
TI  - The Twelve-Mile Straight: a novel 
SN  - 9780062422088
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
KW  - Depressions
KW  - 1929
KW  - Southern States
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Race relations
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references
N2  - "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
ER  -