Tomb of the Unknown Racist

✍ Scribed by Boyd, Blanche Mccrary

• Book ID: 110496324
• Publisher: Counterpoint
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 151 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781640090675

✦ Synopsis

The award-winning novelist and author of The Revolution of Little Girls and Terminal Velocity now concludes her grand survey of political activism twenty years later with her provocative new novel, Tomb of the Unknown Racist
Blanche's first novel in twenty years continues the story of her compelling and edgy protagonist Ellen Burns. When Tomb of the Unknown Racist opens in 1999, Ellen--now sober, haunted by her activist past, her failed relationships, the world at large--is peacefully taking care of her demented mother in South Carolina. Ellen's brother Royce was a celebrated novelist who, a decade earlier, saw his work adopted by racists and fell under the sway of white supremacy. Ellen thought him dead from a botched FBI raid on his compound. But when his estranged daughter turns up on the news, claiming he might be responsible for kidnapping her two mixed-race children, Ellen travels to New Mexico to help her newfound niece. The...