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Adult/High School Howard expands his Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright award-winning short story in this striking first novel that is set more or less in the present day. Middle-aged narrator Roy Deacon carefully recounts the lynching of a well-respected young adult in the Mobile black community in the early 1980s. The victim, Michael Donald, was a lifelong friend of Roy's older brother. As a reluctant upcoming mortician (Deacon Funeral Home has been in opera...Log In or Sign Up to Read More