The song and the silence : a story about family, race, and what was revealed in a small town in the Mississippi Delta while searching for Booker Wright, Yvette Johnson

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The song and the silence : a story about family, race, and what was revealed in a small town in the Mississippi Delta while searching for Booker Wright, Yvette Johnson

Title remainder

a story about family, race, and what was revealed in a small town in the Mississippi Delta while searching for Booker Wright

Statement of responsibility

Yvette Johnson

Instantiates

• trueThe song and the silence : a story about family, race, and what was revealed in a small town in the Mississippi Delta while searching for Booker Wright

Publication

• New York, NY, Atria Books, 2017

Copyright

• ©2017

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

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volume

Carrier category code

• nc

Carrier MARC source

rdacarrier

Content category

text

Content type code

• txt

Content type MARC source

rdacontent

Contents

Part I. Places in time -- Where he was king -- Scattered -- A yellow gal -- Part II. Family -- Black is beautiful -- Coming to terms -- "Get off this place" -- Part III. Surface of the deep -- Colorless -- A catalyst -- A place for the planter class -- Part IV. Some sort of charm -- A magical town -- A not-so magical town -- Making a movement -- Part V. The delta -- From the cotton fields to the football fields -- Fever -- Town on fire -- A self-portrait -- Part VI. Mothers -- A crack in the world -- A specific kind of pain -- A history lesson -- Part VII. The river's Eden -- A place to descend to -- Descendants of master and slave -- Booker's place -- Deconstructing a racist -- Part VIII. A twisted strand -- Quiet years -- A murder story -- Greenwood -- Part IX. Inheritance -- Booker's song -- Remembering

Dimensions

24 cm

Edition

First Atria Books hardcover edition.

Extent

xx, 315 pages

Isbn

9781476754949

Lccn

2016055229

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unmediated

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rdamedia

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• n

Record ID

754898

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• 982465118
• (OCoLC)982465118