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Decent people : a novel / De'Shawn Charles Winslow.

Summary:

When three siblings are found shot to death in the still-segregated town of West Mills, North Carolina, in 1976, and the white authorities show no interest in solving the case, Josephine Wright sets out to prove the innocence of her childhood sweetheart,Olympus "Lymp" Seymore, the murder victims' half-brother and the leading suspect in the case.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781635575323 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 260 pages ; 22 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023.
Subject: African Americans > Fiction.
Murder > Fiction.
Secrecy > Fiction.
North Carolina > History > 20th century > Fiction.
North Carolina > Race relations > Fiction.
Genre: Psychological fiction.
Novels.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

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Lakeshore Branch FIC Winsl 31681010306793 FICTION Available -

De'Shawn Charles Winslow is the author of In West Mills, a Center for Fiction First Novel Prize winner, an American Book Award recipient, and a Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction winner, and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book, Lambda Literary, and Publishing Triangle awards. He was born and raised in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, and graduated from the Iowa Writers' Workshop.


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