The Twelve-Mile Straight

Author: Eleanor Henderson
Publisher: Fourth Estate Ltd
Category: Fiction, Family
Age Group: 15+
Book Format: Hardcover

'Henderson is in possession of an enormous talent which she has matched up with skill, ambition, and a fierce imagination' Ann Patchett

Tender and savage, heart-breaking and hopeful, and deeply human, The Twelve Mile Straight will appeal to fans of American classics by Harper Lee, Toni Morrison and William Faulkner.

Genus Jackson was killed in Cotton County, Georgia, on a summer midnight in 1930, when the newborn twins were fast asleep.
They lay head to toe in a cradle meant for one, Winnafred on one side and Wilson on the other.
Only if you looked closely - and people did - could you see that the girl was pink as a piglet, and the boy was brown.

In a house full of secrets, two babies - one light-skinned, the other dark - are born to Elma Jesup, a white sharecropper's daughter. Accused of her rape, field hand Genus Jackson is lynched and dragged down the Twelve-Mile Straight, the road to the nearby town.

About Eleanor Henderson
Eleanor Henderson's debut novel Ten Thousand Saints was named one of the 10 Best Books of 2011 by the New York Times and was a finalist for the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction from the Los Angeles Times. An associate professor at Ithaca College, she lives in Ithaca, New York, with her husband and two sons.

(BK-9780008158682)

SKU BK-9780008158682
Barcode # 9780008158682
Brand Fourth Estate Ltd
Artist / Author Eleanor Henderson
Shipping Weight 0.9000kg
Shipping Width 0.160m
Shipping Height 0.050m
Shipping Length 0.240m
Assembled Length 24.000m
Assembled Height 4.700m
Assembled Width 15.900m
Type Hardcover

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