The Twelve-Mile Straight, a novel, Eleanor Henderson
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The Twelve-Mile Straight, a novel, Eleanor Henderson
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references
Index
no index present
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
The Twelve-Mile Straight
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
966381917
Responsibility statement
Eleanor Henderson
Sub title
a novel
Summary
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
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- Race relations
- Southern States
- Fiction
- 1900-1999
- History
- Historical fiction
- Depressions -- 1929 -- Southern States -- Fiction
- Manners and customs
- Southern States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Southern States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- FICTION + Historical
- Depressions
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- Creator1
- Genre3
- Subject12
- Race relations
- Southern States
- Fiction
- 1900-1999
- History
- Historical fiction
- Depressions -- 1929 -- Southern States -- Fiction
- Manners and customs
- Southern States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Southern States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- FICTION + Historical
- Depressions
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- Author1
- Other version1
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