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*NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 BY THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE*

*An Entertainment Weekly Must-Read Book for Fall*

From New York Times bestselling author Eleanor Henderson, an audacious American epic set in rural Georgia during the years of the Depression and Prohibition.

Cotton County, Georgia, 1930: in a house full of secrets, 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. In the aftermath, the farm’s inhabitants are forced to contend with their complicity in a series of events that left a man dead and a family irrevocably fractured.

Despite the prying eyes and curious whispers of the townspeople, Elma begins to raise her babies as best as she can, under the roof of her mercurial father,

The TwelveMile Straight

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      Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 12/09/2017
      ISBN13: 9780062422088, 978-0062422088
      ISBN10: 0062422081

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      *NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 BY THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE*

      *An Entertainment Weekly Must-Read Book for Fall*

      From New York Times bestselling author Eleanor Henderson, an audacious American epic set in rural Georgia during the years of the Depression and Prohibition.

      Cotton County, Georgia, 1930: in a house full of secrets, 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. In the aftermath, the farm’s inhabitants are forced to contend with their complicity in a series of events that left a man dead and a family irrevocably fractured.

      Despite the prying eyes and curious whispers of the townspeople, Elma begins to raise her babies as best as she can, under the roof of her mercurial father,

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