TY  - BOOK
AU  - Joy,David
TI  - Those we thought we knew: a novel 
SN  - 9780525536918
PY  - 2023///]
CY  - New York
PB  - G.P. Putnam's Sons
KW  - Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Confederate States of America
KW  - Army
KW  - Monuments
KW  - African American women
KW  - Dissertations, Academic
KW  - Soldiers' monuments
KW  - Secrecy
KW  - Racism
KW  - Homecoming
KW  - Women, Black
KW  - Southern States
KW  - Small cities
KW  - North Carolina
KW  - Genealogy
KW  - Social problem fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Novels
N2  - "A searing novel about the cracks that form in a small North Carolina community and the evils that unfurl from its center. Toya Gardner, a young Black artist from Atlanta, has returned to her ancestral home in the North Carolina mountains to trace her family history and complete her graduate thesis. But when she encounters a still-standing Confederate monument in the heart of town, she sets her sights on something bigger. Meanwhile, local deputies find a man sleeping in the back of a station wagon and believe him to be nothing more than some slack-jawed drifter. Yet a search of the man's vehicle reveals that he is a high-ranking member of the Klan, and the uncovering of a notebook filled with local names threatens to turn the mountain on end. After two horrific crimes split the county apart, every soul must wrestle with deep and unspoken secrets that stretch back for generations. Richly drawn and bracingly honest, Those We Thought We Knew reckons with an urgent, essential question: What do you do when everything you ever believed crumbles away?"-- Page 2 of cover
ER  -