An acclaimed novelist goes back to his childhood growing up in supremacist-dominated Alabama in this non-fiction novel of the bloody Civil Rights Movement, a novel Kirkus Reviews calls " ... profound [and] unpredictable ... An engrossing, heartbreakingly real novel of the South."In an Alabama town held captive under Jim Crow laws and ruled by the blind hatred of the KKK, free-spirited teenager Sonny Poe is heedless to the suppression of blacks in his town--until he witnesses a lynching in the midnight woods. Then everything in his life changes. This beautifully written novel pulsates in epic fashion with violence, betrayal, humor and love on a narrative transporting us into one of America's most pressing historical moments before arriving at the story's shocking and heartbreaking climax.
