Deer Creek Drive: A Reckoning of Memory and Murder in the Mississippi Delta (Libro en Inglés)

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ISBN: 9780525657231
por Knopf
ISBN: 9780525657231
Editorial: Knopf
Autor: Lowry, Beverly
Año de edición: 2022
N° Paginas: 368
Tipo de pasta: Pasta dura
Descripción: The stunning true story of a murder that rocked the Mississippi Delta and forever shaped one author’s life and perception of home.“Mix together a bloody murder in a privileged white family, a false accusation against a Black man, a suspicious town, a sensational trial with colorful lawyers, and a punishment that didn’t fit the crime, and you have the best of southern gothic fiction. But the very best part is that the story is true.” —John GrishamIn 1948, in the most stubbornly Dixiefied corner of the Jim Crow south, society matron Idella Thompson was viciously murdered in her own home: stabbed at least 150 times and left facedown in one of the bathrooms. Her daughter, Ruth Dickins, was the only other person in the house. She told authorities a Black man she didn’t recognize had fled the scene, but no evidence of the man's presence was uncovered. When Dickins herself was convicted and sentenced to life in prison, the community exploded. Petitions pleading for her release were drafted, signed, and circulated, and after only six years, the governor of Mississippi granted Ruth Dickins an indefinite suspension of her sentence and she was set free.In Deer Creek Drive, Beverly Lowry—who was ten at the time of the murder and lived mere miles from the Thompsons’ home—tells a story of white privilege that still has ramifications today, and reflects on the brutal crime, its aftermath, and the ways it clarified her own upbringing in Mississippi.Review“Mix together a bloody murder in a privileged white family, a false accusation against a Black man, a suspicious town, a sensational trial with colorful lawyers, and a punishment that didn’t fit the crime, and you have the best of southern gothic fiction. But the very best part is that the story is true.”—John Grisham“Deer Creek Drive is built as a clever apparatus, which is executed with all the mastery one would expect from [Lowry] . . . Deer Creek Drive should be considered the crown jewel of Lowry’s literary career, being a culmination of four genres she has written successfully in, cut cleanly and attractively into a masterpiece of nonfiction. Beyond that, it’s an engrossing story told well. It will surely be a classic.”—Conor Hultman, Oxford Review“Persuasive . . . Rich and compelling . . . Lowry deftly weaves the unraveling of her own family secrets with those of the Thompson-Dickens family in the wake of Idella’s murder, all set against the eve of the Civil Rights Era in the Mississippi Delta.”—Allison McNearney, The Daily Beast“Scintillating . . . In Deer Creek Drive Lowry fuses true crime with memoir, braiding her own story with that of the murder . . . Lowry, sensitive and clear-eyed about [Mississippi’s relationship to race and racism], chronicles the upheavals that rocked the Delta in the wake of desegregation and reckons with the attitudes in which her childhood was steeped.”—Johnathan Miles, Garden & Gun“The Mississippi Delta in the 1940s, a gruesome murder mystery, family dramas that conjure Faulkner and Welty—this is a book that only Beverly Lowry, a daughter of the Delta, could bring to the world now. At once a thriller, a memoir and a portrait of a bygone South, Deer Creek Drive is a stunning valedictory from one of the region’s greatest living writers.”—Bryan Burrough, co-author of Barbarians at the Gate and Forget the Alamo“Beverly Lowry writes about some very grave things in Deer Creek Drive: matricide, deceit, greed, forbidden love, fury, bad luck and the world’s casual meanness. Yet with pure elan, she writes it truly, and with such astonishing wit and savvy that I couldn’t stop reading.”—Richard Ford“Deeply reported, well-crafted . . . Lowry was 10 years old, living the next town over, when the crime occurred and recalls its impact on the community.”—“9 new books for your summer reading list,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution“This promises to be a thoughtful and gripping addition to the true crime genre.”—“29 Works of N
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