โ Scribed by Eleanor Henderson
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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 farmer's daughter. Accused of rape, field hand Genus Jackson is lynched and dragged through the street behind a truck. In the aftermath, the farm's inhabitants, along with the people of the nearby town, are forced to contend with their roles and 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 and with the help of Nan, the young black housekeeper who Elma is as close to as a sister. But soon it becomes clear that the ties that bind all of them together are more intricate than any...
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