Winthrop, Elizabeth H. (1979 -)

The mercy seat : a novel / Elizabeth H. Winthrop - First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition. - 258 p. ; 22 cm

A complex portrait of a small town in Louisiana in 1943, as seen in the twelve hours before a black teenager's execution for the alleged rape of a white woman.


English.

9780802128188


Race discrimination---Fiction
City and town life---Fiction
Race relations---Fiction

PS3623.I7 / M47 2018

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