It`s the 1980s in Alabama`s all-white Prince George County, and Rose`s only child has died. When her abusive husband and his friends kill a black man, Rose--with the help of another abused wife--leaves him and speaks out about his crime. The plot of this novel reaches back into history to the trouble, when, on a night in 1914, all the black residents of the town were either killed or driven out.
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