American Ghost : A Novel (Hardcover)

from julie10reads

In her fourth novel (after The Schooling of Claybird Catts), Owens takes on an ugly subject and largely succeeds with an engrossing story. Based on the last reported lynching in America, Owens relocates the history to a tiny Florida town, where, in 1938, Henry Kite, a black man, was lynched after...

from Beamis12

I actually had to go and check with Wiki to find out what the cracker culture in Florida was all about. This was a very interesting, extremely well written and easy to read story. The character development was wonderful and this is one of the few books that I can say I liked almost every characte...