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The Vain Conversation

by Anthony Grooms
Clarence Major
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"A real-life racially motivated mass killing from 1946 is boldly and deeply reimagined [in this] incisive, gripping and empathetic novel" (Kirkus, starred review).
Inspired by true events, The Vain Conversation reflects on the 1946 lynching of two black couples in Georgia from the perspectives of three characters—Bertrand Johnson, one of the victims; Noland Jacks, a presumed perpetrator; and Lonnie Henson, a witness to the murders as a ten-year-old boy. Lonnie's inexplicable feelings of culpability drive him in a search for meaning that takes him around the world, and ultimately back to Georgia, where he must confront both Jacks and his own demons.
In this stirring and incisive narrative, Anthony Grooms seeks to advance the national dialogue on race relations. With complexity, satire, and surprising moments of levity, he explores what it means to redeem and be redeemed. Deeply probing the issues of American race violence, The Vain Conversation also speaks to the broader issues of oppression and violence everywhere.
Foreword by poet, painter, and novelist Clarence Major.
Afterward by bestselling author T. Geronimo Johnson.
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Series: Story River Books Publisher: University of South Carolina Press

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  • Release date: November 12, 2021

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  • ISBN: 9781611178838
  • File size: 585 KB
  • Release date: November 12, 2021

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  • ISBN: 9781611178838
  • File size: 761 KB
  • Release date: November 12, 2021
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Fiction African American Fiction Mystery Historical Fiction

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"A real-life racially motivated mass killing from 1946 is boldly and deeply reimagined [in this] incisive, gripping and empathetic novel" (Kirkus, starred review).
Inspired by true events, The Vain Conversation reflects on the 1946 lynching of two black couples in Georgia from the perspectives of three characters—Bertrand Johnson, one of the victims; Noland Jacks, a presumed perpetrator; and Lonnie Henson, a witness to the murders as a ten-year-old boy. Lonnie's inexplicable feelings of culpability drive him in a search for meaning that takes him around the world, and ultimately back to Georgia, where he must confront both Jacks and his own demons.
In this stirring and incisive narrative, Anthony Grooms seeks to advance the national dialogue on race relations. With complexity, satire, and surprising moments of levity, he explores what it means to redeem and be redeemed. Deeply probing the issues of American race violence, The Vain Conversation also speaks to the broader issues of oppression and violence everywhere.
Foreword by poet, painter, and novelist Clarence Major.
Afterward by bestselling author T. Geronimo Johnson.
Expand title description text
Fiction African American Fiction Mystery Historical Fiction