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A powerful depiction of racial tensions arising over the death of a Cajun farmer at the hands of a black man--set on a Louisiana sugarcane plantation in the 197

NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • A deep and compassionate novel about a young man who returns to 1940s Cajun country to visit a Black youth on deat

A compelling debut love story set in a deceptively bucolic Louisiana countryside, where blacks, Cajuns, and whites maintain an uneasy coexistence--by the award-

A poor African American boy and his mother experience both discrimination and kindness during a trip to town to see the dentist.

A courthouse shooting leads a young reporter to uncover the long story of race and power in his small town and the relationship between the white sheriff and th