In Cedar Point, South Carolina, in 1916, fourteen-year-old Willie T. Allson, teetering on the edge of manhood, talks about the year that his two cousins came to live with the family
Is mercy more important than justice?Since antiquity, mercy has been regarded as a virtue. Yet by the end of the eighteenth century, mercy had been exiled from political life. In this book, Malcolm...
A rich and nuanced story beginning with a moment of fear and abandonment that will reverberate across decades and change the course of many lives, by a beloved PEN/Faulkner and National Book Critics...