The Vain Conversation
A Novel
Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, [2018]
Format: Book
Description: xiii, 239 pages ; 24 cm.
Inspired by true events, The Vain Conversation reflects on the 1946 lynching of two black couples in Georgia from the perspectives of three characters--Bertrand Johnson, one of the victims; Noland Jacks, a presumed perpetrator; and Lonnie Henson, a witness to the murders as a ten-year-old boy. Lonnie's inexplicable feelings of culpability drive him in a search for meaning that takes him around the world, and ultimately back to Georgia, where he must confront Jacks and his own demons, with the hopes that doing so will free him from the grip of the past. In The Vain Conversation, Anthony Grooms seeks to advance the national dialogue on race relations. He explores what it means to redeem, as well as to be redeemed, on the issues of America's race violence and speaks to the broader issues of oppression and violence everywhere.
Series: Story river books.
Other Authors:
Major, Clarence, writer of foreword.
Johnson, T. Geronimo (Tyrone Geronimo), writer of afterword.
Major, Clarence, writer of foreword.
Johnson, T. Geronimo (Tyrone Geronimo), writer of afterword.
Subjects:
Witnesses -- Fiction.
Lynching -- Fiction.
Racism -- Fiction.
Redemption -- Fiction.
Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction.
Change (Psychology) -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Veterans -- Fiction.
United States -- Race relations -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Walton County (Ga.) -- Fiction.
United States -- Race relations -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction.
Witnesses -- Fiction.
Lynching -- Fiction.
Racism -- Fiction.
Redemption -- Fiction.
Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction.
Change (Psychology) -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Veterans -- Fiction.
United States -- Race relations -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Walton County (Ga.) -- Fiction.
United States -- Race relations -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction.
ISBN:
9781611178821