03186cam a2200337 4500 1466058413 TxAuBib 20240725120000.0 ||||||s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781572848849 1572848847 B0CST25X2C Amazon 32febb3b-d922-4e92-a9dd-96489a9028ec OverDrive (Reserve ID) 10434474 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Pitts, Jr. 54 Miles [Libby] : A Novel. Agate Publishing, 2024. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2624kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Fiction. African American Fiction. Literature. Historical Fiction. HTML:<p>The free-standing successor and next novel by the author of the critically acclaimed <i>The Last Thing You Surrender</i>, Leonard Pitts, Jr.'s <i>54 Miles</i> launches forward twenty years to the fateful weeks of March 1965—from the infamous "Bloody Sunday" march at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma on the 7th to the triumphant entry into Montgomery on the 25th that climaxed the voting rights campaign—and the families who find themselves confronting the past amid another flashpoint in American history.</p> <p>Young Adam, who has been raised in Harlem by his white father, George, and Black mother, Thelma, goes back to his parents' home state of Alabama to participate in the voting rights campaign, only to be brutalized in the Bloody Sunday melee. He is still recovering from this when he is struck a heavy emotional blow, learning for the first time—and in the cruelest way imaginable—of a family secret that sends him spiraling and plunging further into danger. To save him, and any hope for their relationship, Thelma is drawn back, for the first time in twenty years, to the South she both hates and fears, and to a reckoning that may result in an incalculable loss.<br /></p> <p>Meanwhile, Thelma's brother Luther is also spiraling, but in a different way. Forty-two years after his parents were lynched before his eyes, and twenty years after the man who led the lynch mob walked out of court a free man, Luther has just made a shocking discovery. He's found the murderer, Floyd Bitters, helpless and enfeebled in a rest home—unable to move or even to speak. The old man is literally at Luther's mercy. And Luther, who has never overcome this trauma that defined his life, is suddenly forced to relive it all again as he grapples with the awful question of what justice now demands.</p>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2024-07-24 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=32febb3b-d922-4e92-a9dd-96489a9028ec&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=32febb3b-d922-4e92-a9dd-96489a9028ec&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=32febb3b-d922-4e92-a9dd-96489a9028ec&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)