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The eighty-year anniversary edition of the once-banned, #1 New York Times–bestselling novel of interracial romance and discrimination in Georgia.
Alice Walker said it best: “The South can hardly be said to recognize itself without this book.” Igniting controversy upon its publication in 1944, Strange Fruit was banned in Boston and Detroit and the US Postal Service refused to send it through the mail until Eleanor Roosevelt intervened—all because of its portrayal of a town divided along racial lines and the forbidden love that dared to cross them . . .
Despite having left Maxwell, Georgia, to attend college, Nonnie Anderson returned to her hometown to work for a prominent white family—and to rejoin the man she had always loved, Tracy Deen.
Tracy, the directionless son of the town’s doctor, has come back from war and is being pressured to finally get his life in order. Across the street, his high school sweetheart desperately waits for a marriage proposal. On the other side of town, Nonnie offers him a safe place to land, asking nothing in return. But now, she’s pregnant.
As a Christian revival inspires the locals to cease their sinful ways, a heady and dangerous mix of passion, religion, and racism takes hold. And when a white man is killed in a Black part of town, the event exposes the evil simmering just below the town’s placid surface—an inferno waiting to erupt . . .
“A very moving book and an extraordinary one.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
“Strange Fruit is so wide in its human understanding . . . [its] tragedy becomes the tragedy of anyone who lives in a world in which minorities suffer.” —The Nation
“An absorbing novel, of high literary merit, terrific and tender.” —The Boston Globe
ASIN : B0CKZ3GZNF
Publisher : Open Road Media
Accessibility : Learn more
Publication date : January 2, 2024
Language : English
File size : 5.4 MB
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 374 pages
ISBN-13 : 978-1504089302
Page Flip : Enabled
Best Sellers Rank: #145,207 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store) #101 in Black & African American Historical Fiction (Kindle Store) #133 in Black & African American Literary Fiction #164 in Black & African American Historical Fiction (Books)
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