| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
278 pages ; 22 cm |
| Summary |
"Meet Ottie Lee Henshaw, a startling, challenging beauty in small-town Indiana. Quick of mind, she navigates a stifling marriage, a lecherous boss, and on one day in the summer of 1930 an odyssey across the countryside to witness a dark and fearful celebration. Meet Calla Destry, a determined young woman desperate to escape the violence of her town and to find the lover who has promised her a new life. On this day, the countryside of Jim Crow-era Indiana is no place for either. It is a world populated by frenzied demagogues and crazed revelers, by marauding vigilantes and grim fish suppers, by possessed blood hounds and, finally, by the Ku Klux Klan itself" -- provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
African American women -- Fiction.
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Race relations -- Fiction.
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Nineteen twenties -- Fiction.
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Indiana -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Historical fiction.
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Historical fiction.
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| ISBN |
9780316391283 (hardcover) |
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031639128X (hardcover) |
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