Maddy Dangerfield is a Mississippi teenager growing up in a highly religious black family. Her mother works as a maid, her father is an alcoholic womanizer, her aunt is a hustler, her uncle is a rapist serving time. When Maddy is sent to take care of her aunt, now dying of cancer, she finds in the experience the strength to transcend her ...
Award-winning author Olympia Vernon's third novel, "A Killing in This Town," is a taut, poetic masterpiece that exhumes a horrific epoch from the annals of the American South. There is a menace in the woods of Bullock County, Mississippi, and not only for the black man destined to be lynched when a white boy comes of age. The white men who work at ...
After critics raved over Olympia Vernon's first novel, Eden, Vernon returns to the Deep South for the story of Logic, a young girl struggling to free herself from the unspeakable condition she refers to as "the butterflies floating inside" her. As a child Logic Harris survived a fall from a tree-an accident that precipitated her transformation ...
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