The Twelve-Mile Straight

By eleanor henderson

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ISBN: 9780008158712
Themes: historical realistic fiction medical inequality Southern Fiction Racism

Preface

In a small town in rural Georgia, two babies are born - one light skinned and one dark. Their mother, Elma Jessop is a white sharecroppers daughter and the birth of her children causes a scandal in the town because her father, Juke, claims Elma was raped. This claim leads to the lynching of a field hand by the name of Genus Jackson and the unravelling of a whole load of secrets in the house in which the babies were born.