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Book

The song and the silence : a story about family, race, and what was revealed in a small town in the Mississippi Delta while searching for Booker Wright

Call Number

  • 305.896 J718 (OSH)

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Edition

First Atria Books hardcover edition.

Publication Information

New York : Atria Books, 2017.

Physical Description

xx, 315 pages ; 24 cm

Contents

  • Part I. Places in time
  • Where he was king
  • Scattered
  • A yellow gal
  • Part II. Family
  • Black is beautiful
  • Coming to terms
  • "Get off this place"
  • Part III. Surface of the deep
  • Colorless
  • A catalyst
  • A place for the planter class
  • Part IV. Some sort of charm
  • A magical town
  • A not-so magical town
  • Making a movement
  • Part V. The delta
  • From the cotton fields to the football fields
  • Fever
  • Town on fire
  • A self-portrait
  • Part VI. Mothers
  • A crack in the world
  • A specific kind of pain
  • A history lesson
  • Part VII. The river's Eden
  • A place to descend to
  • Descendants of master and slave
  • Booker's place
  • Deconstructing a racist
  • Part VIII. A twisted strand
  • Quiet years
  • A murder story
  • Greenwood
  • Part IX. Inheritance
  • Booker's song
  • Remembering.

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