Nordan unleashes the hellhounds of his prodigious imagination on one of the most notorious racial killings of the century—the murder of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old black child charged with whistling at a white woman—in a magical mystery tour of the Southern psyche in the mid-1950s.
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Nordan unleashes the hellhounds of his prodigious imagination on one of the most notorious racial killings of the century—the murder of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old black child charged with whistling at a white woman—in a magical mystery tour of the Southern psyche in the mid-1950s.
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In 1956, a black boy named Emmett Till was murdered for wolf-whistling at a white woman. The two white men responsible were tried-and acquitted-in a Mississippi town near Lewis Nordan's boyhood home. These events changed him forever. In this extraordinary novel, Nordan transforms one of America's most notorious racial killings into a magicalmystery ride of hilarity and horror that you will never forget.
About the Author
Lewis Nordan grew up in Itta Bena, Mississippi, and was fifteen when Emmet Till was murdered. Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Pittsburgh for many years, he is the author of seven books of fiction and a memoir. His many awards include three American Library Association Notable Book citations, the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters award for fiction, the Mississippi Authors award for fiction, and the Southern Book Critics Circle award for fiction.
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