Tag: Eleanor Henderson

  • A Novelist Dissects the Claustrophobic Evil of Jim Crow The New York Times 2017-10-06 Ayana Mathis Melinda Beck Eleanor Henderson, The Twelve-Mile Straight, A Novel (New York: Ecco/HarperCollins, 2017) Every couple of decades the nation revisits, publicly and painfully, its oldest violence. The wounds of race — still open, still weeping over the course of…

  • From New York Times bestselling author Eleanor Henderson, an audacious American epic set in rural Georgia during the years of the Depression and Prohibition.

  • Sorrentino begins with the inherited family narratives of Vicki, a daughter of Puerto Rican transplants whose birth certificate classifies her as Black but whose story of racial passing is as complicated as any other aspect of her identity. She seems determined not to be Puerto Rican, yet she vigorously disapproves of the affectations of white…