The Twelve-Mile Straight*NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 BY THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE* *An Entertainment Weekly \"Must Read\" Book for Fall* From New York Times bestselling author Eleanor Henderson, an audacious American epic set in rural Georgia during the years of the Depression and Prohibition. Cotton County, Georgia, 1930: in a house full of secrets, two babies one light skinned, the other dark are born to Elma Jesup, a white sharecroppers daughter. Accused of her rape,

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