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The Twelve-Mile Straight: A Novel

Eleanor Henderson

"Novel set in the south during the Great Depression that takes an entirely fresh view on big American themes-- race, heredity, inequality, shame-- set in a time of financial crisis and racialized violence"--

GenresDepressions1929Southern StatesFictionHistoricalRace relations

543 pages

English edition · First published 2017 by Ecco · ISBN 9780062422101

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