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Even if you think you know what it was like to grow up poor and black in the Jim Crow South, this novel will be a revelation to your understanding. Paulette Bourdreaux's first novel, and winner of the first Lee Smith Novel Prize, is a riveting, scary, and finally, uplifting account of a family's life in 1960s Mississippi. The novel was a finalist for the prestigious Crook's Corner Prize. Said Tayari Jones(An American Marriage): «This soaring story provs what teh old folks say: the truth really does set us free.»