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"I am stunned by the daring, meticulous, and unsentimental intelligence of this riveting book . . . Vengeance is a masterwork, the most important American book I've read this year, and the most moving and mesmerizing. -- Francisco Goldman, author of Say Her Name "More than any book I've read in the twenty-first century, Zachary Lazar's Vengeance makes the reader reckon with the questions of what's real, what's imagined, and why those questions matter more in 2017 than at any other time in our nation. . . . Vengeance reminds me of what is possible through deft, imaginative, 'real' storytelling." -- Kiese Laymon, author of Long Division Zachary Lazar's powerful and important novel was inspired by a passion play, The Life of Jesus Christ, he witnessed at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola.