The Mercy Seat
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2018.
Format: Large Print
Edition: Large print edition.
Description: 345 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
A complex portrait of a small town in Louisiana in 1943, as seen in the twelve hours before a black teenager's execution for the alleged rape of a white woman -- 1943. Eighteen year old Willie Jones sits in his cell in New Iberia awaiting his execution for the alleged rape of a white woman. Across the state, a truck driven by a convict and his keeper carries the traveling executioner's chair closer. On a nearby highway, Willie's father Frank lugs a gravestone on the back of his fading, old mule. In his office the DA who prosecuted Willie reckons with his sentencing, while at their gas station at the crossroads outside of town, married couple Ora and Dale grapple with their grief and their secrets. -- adapted from jacket.
Series: Thorndike Press large print basic
Subjects:
Race discrimination -- Fiction.
City and town life -- Fiction.
Race relations -- Fiction.
Large type books.
Race discrimination -- Juvenile fiction.
Nineteen forties -- Juvenile fiction.
City and town life -- Juvenile fiction.
Race relations -- Juvenile fiction.
Race discrimination -- Fiction.
City and town life -- Fiction.
Race relations -- Fiction.
Large type books.
Race discrimination -- Juvenile fiction.
Nineteen forties -- Juvenile fiction.
City and town life -- Juvenile fiction.
Race relations -- Juvenile fiction.
ISBN:
9781432856090
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
LPF Winthrop | Main (Downtown) | Second Level, Large Print Fiction | In |