In the Pines: A Lynching, a Lie, a Reckoning

Format: Hardcover Language: English ISBN: 0316564745 ISBN13: 9780316564748 Release Date: November 2023 Publisher: Little Brown and Company Length: 256 Pages Weight: 1.05 lbs. Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.5" Winner of the Mississippi Historical Society Book of the Year Award In this "courageous and compelling ... essential and critically important" book (Bryan Stevenson), an award-winning scholar of white supremacy tackles her toughest research assignment yet: the unsolved murder of a Black man in rural Mississippi while her grandfather was the local sheriff--a cold case that sheds new light on the hidden legacy of racial terror in America. A Washington Post Noteworthy Book An Amazon Best Book of the Month Grace Hale was home from college when she first heard the family legend. In 1947, while her beloved grandfather had been serving as a sheriff in the Piney Woods of south-central Mississippi, he prevented a lynch mob from killing a Black man who was in his jail