New York: Harper Collins, (2016). First edition - An epic novel of race and violence in the Jim Crow South . ."Delvin Walker is just a boy when his mother flees their home in the Red Row section of Chattanooga, accused of killing a white man. Taken in by the proprietor of the town's leading Negro funeral home, he discovers the art of caring for the aggrieved, and a rare peace in a hostile world. After a series of devastating events - a lynching, a church burning - Delvin fears being accused of murdering a local white boy and leaves town. He rides the rails, meets fellow travelers, falls in love, and sees an America sliding into the Great Depression. But he and a group of other young men are falsely charged with the rape of two white women, and shackled to a system of enslavement masquerading as justice." 451 pp.