Focusing principally on Negro characters in rural North Carolina in the
early 1900's, these thirteen stories are as affecting as they are
earthy. Simple in construction, but built on complex issues, they follow
several of Green's favorite themes: the white man's injustice to his
black neighbor, the horror of capital punishment, the power of poverty
to negate hard work and good intentions, and the stubborn dignity of
human beings who refuse to be entirely crushed by circumstance.
Originally published in 1976.
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