The Twelve-Mile Straight / Eleanor Henderson.

Nā:

Henderson, Eleanor [author.]

Momo rauemi: Text

TextKaiwhakaputa: New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2017]Edition: First editionWhakaahuatanga: 543 pages ; 24 cmISBN:

9780008158705
9780062422088
0062422081
9780008158699 (pbk.)
000815869X (pbk.)

Ngā marau:

Genre/Form:

Historical fiction.

Additional physical formats: Online version:: Twelve-mile straight.DDC classification:

813/.6 23

LOC classification:

PS3608.E5259 T94 2017

Other classification:

FIC014000

Summary: "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"--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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Momo tuemi	Tauwāhi onāianei	Kohinga	Tau karanga	Tūnga	Rā oti	Waeherepae	Ngā puringa tuemi
Fiction	Eltham LibraryPlus Fiction	Fiction	HEND (Tirotirohia te whatanga(Opens below))	Wātea		i2184813
Fiction	Stratford Fiction	Fiction	HEN (Tirotirohia te whatanga(Opens below))	Wātea		A00838042

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"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.

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