Ginny Gall, a life in the South, Charlie Smith
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Ginny Gall, a life in the South, Charlie Smith
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Ginny Gall
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Charlie Smith
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a life in the South
Summary
Delvin Walker is just a boy when his mother flees their home in the Red Row section of Chattanooga, accused of killing a white man. Taken in by Cornelius Oliver, proprietor of the town's leading Negro funeral home, he discovers the art of caring for the aggrieved, the promise of transcendence in the written word, and a rare peace in a hostile world. Yet tragedy visits them near daily, and after a series of devastating events -- a lynching, a church burning -- Delvin fears being accused of murdering a local white boy and leaves town... A fresh and complex portrait of the South of the 1920s and 30s -- and the astonishing endurance of one battered young man who lives past and through it all
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