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NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER * A deep and compassionate novel about a young man who returns to 1940s Cajun country to visit a Black youth on death row for a crime he didn't commit. Together they come to understand the heroism of...
"The author of this book, Ernest Gaines, died November 5, 2019, and I decided it was finally time I read this book, which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, and won the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction in 1993."
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NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER * A deep and compassionate novel about a young man who returns to 1940s Cajun country to visit a Black youth on death row for a crime he didn't commit. Together they come to understand the heroism of...
"The book begins with a trip to the dentist by author Daniel Klein. “He said I had to get these implants over the course of a year [or] I would look older with denture plates …and my teeth would pop out once in a while,” Klein recalled. “And I thou..."
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