· THE TWELVE-MILE STRAIGHT By Eleanor Henderson pp. Ecco/HarperCollins Publishers. $ Every couple of decades the nation revisits, publicly and painfully, its oldest www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 7 mins. The Twelve-Mile Straight A novel that combines the intimacy of a family drama with the staggering presence of a great Southern saga. Tackling themes of racialized violence, social division, and financial crisis, The Twelve-Mile Straight is a startlingly timely, emotionally resonant, and magnificent tour de force. Acclaimed author Eleanor Henderson has returned with a novel that combines the intimacy of a family drama with the staggering presence of a great Southern saga. Tackling themes of racialized violence, social division, and financial crisis, The Twelve-Mile Straight is a startlingly timely, emotionally resonant, and magnificent tour de force.
Eleanor Henderson's The Twelve-Mile Straight can feel like a slog, nearly pages of human suffering told in the third person, through the lenses of various members of the community. It is. The Twelve-Mile Straight by Eleanor Henderson Publisher: Ecco Release Date: Septem Length: pages Buy on Amazon {A Bit of Backstory} From the Publisher "Cotton County, Georgia, in a house full of secrets, two babies-one light-skinned, the other dark-are born to Elma Jesup, a white sharecropper's daughter. THE TWELVE-MILE STRAIGHT By Eleanor Henderson pp. Ecco/HarperCollins Publishers. $ Every couple of decades the nation revisits, publicly and painfully, its oldest violence. The wounds.
The novel's namesake, the twelve-mile straight, is a road that connects the Jesup family farm to the nearest town. From the initial lynching of Genus Jackson, the road remains thematically important throughout the whole novel. Eleanor Henderson's The Twelve-Mile Straight can feel like a slog, nearly pages of human suffering told in the third person, through the lenses of various members of the community. It is. The book was based on Florence, Georgia, Cotton County, The Twelve Mile Straight road in 's, depressed times on a farm. Lynching and racism that makes you sick, women abused, deception and lies and secrets, some genuinely evil people. In the midst of it all a "coloured" and a white baby are born.
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