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008 181225s2017 nyu g 000 0 eng d
010 $a2016048070
020 $a9780062422088 (hbk.) :$cNT$980
040 $aTWTNM$beng$dTWTNM
050 00$aPS3608.E5259$bT94 2017
082 04$a813.6$222
100 1 $aHenderson, Eleanor,$eauthor.
245 14$aThe Twelve-Mile Straight /$cEleanor Henderson.
250 $aFirst edition.
260 $aNew York, NY :$bEcco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,$c[2017].
300 $a543 p. ;$c24 cm.
520 $aNovel set in the south during the Great Depression that takes an entirely fresh view on big American themes-- race, heredity, inequality, shame-- set in a time of financial crisis and racialized violence--$cProvided by publisher.
520 $aCotton County, Georgia, 1930. Two babies-- one light- skinned, the other dark-- are born to Elma Jesup, a white sharecropper's daughter. Accused of her rape, field hand Genus Jackson is lynched and dragged behind a truck down the Twelve-Mile Straight, the road to the nearby town. Elma begins to raise her babies as best as she can, under the roof of her mercurial father, Juke, and with the help of Nan, the young black housekeeper. But the ties that bind all of them together are more intricate than any could have ever imagined, and a web of lies begins to collapse around the family.
650 0$aDepressions$y1929$zSouthern States$vFiction.
651 0$aSouthern States$xRace relations$xHistory$y20th century$vFiction.
651 0$aSouthern States$xSocial life and customs$y20th century$vFiction.