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A fictionalization of the 1955 Emmett Till murder, in which a teenage boy from Chicago was lynched in Mississippi after speaking French in the presence of a young white girl. "Intriguing... A thoughtful, intelligent work... The novel traces the yeasr from he '50s to the ate '80s, from Eisenhower to George Bush... She writes with simple eloquence about small-town life in the South, right after the start of the great social upheaval of he civil rights movement... Campbell has a strong creative voice."