Twelve-Mile Straight Audiobook by Eleanor Henderson
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Twelve-Mile Straight Audiobook by Eleanor Henderson
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ID: 308417
Title: Twelve-Mile Straight
Author: Eleanor Henderson
Narrator: Allyson Johnson
Format: Unabridged
Length: 17:04:00
Language: English
Release date: 09-12-2017
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK
Genres: History, Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, North America, Family Life
Summary:
Eleanor Henderson is in possession of an enormous talent Ann Patchett A superb novel whose roots can be traced to Harper Lee and Carson McCullers Oprah Magazine 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 sharecroppers daughter. Accused of her rape, field hand Genus Jackson is lynched and dragged down the Twelve-Mile Straight, the road to the nearby town. Despite the prying eyes and curious whispers of the townspeople, Elma begins to raise her babies as best as she can, under the roof of her impulsive father, Juke, and with the help of Nan, the young black housekeeper who is as close to Elma as a sister. It soon becomes clear that the ties that bind all of them together are more intricate than any could have imagined. A web of lies begins to collapse around the family, destabilizing their precarious world and forcing all to reckon with the truth.
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