Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi

Title: Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi Author: Wright Thompson ISBN: 9780593299821 Publisher: Penguin Press Published: 2024 Binding: Hardcover Language: English Condition: New American History 1622814 Publisher Description: "The Barn is the most brutal, layered and absolutely beautiful book about Mississippi, and really how the world conspired with the best and worst parts of Mississippi, I will ever read...Reporting and reckoning can get no better, or more important, than this." --Kiese Laymon, author of Long Division and Heavy: An American Memoir "An incredible history of a crime that changed America." --John Grisham"With integrity, and soul, Thompson unearths the terrible how and why, carrying us back and forth through time, deep in Mississippi--baring, sweat, soil, and heart all the way through." --Imani Perry A shocking and revelatory account of the murder of