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A searing debut novel that follows three generations -- fractured by murder, seeking redemption -- in fictional Pitchlynn, Mississippi.An Iraq War veteran turned small-town homemaker, Colleen works hard to keep her deployment behind her -- until pregnancy brings her buried trauma to the surface. She hides her mounting anxiety from her husband, Derby, who is in turn preoccupied with the retrial of his father, Hare Hobbs, for a decades-old, civil rights-era murder. Colleen and Derby's community, including the descendants of the murder victim, still grapple with the fallout; corrections officer Doc and his wife, Jessica, have built their life in the shadow of this violent act.As a media frenzy builds, questions of Hare's guilt -- and of the townsfolks' potential complicity in the crime -- only magnify the ever-present tensions of class and race, tied always to the land and who can call it their own.



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