The Twelve-Mile Straight

From New York Times bestselling author Eleanor Henderson: an audacious American epic set in rural Georgia during the years of the Depression and prohibition. Cotton County, Georgia, 1930: in a house full of secrets, two babies-one light-skinned, the other dark-are born to Elma Jesup, a farmer's daughter. Accused of rape, field hand Genus Jackson is lynched and dragged through the street behind a truck. In the aftermath, the farm's inhabitants, a...