Out of the Night That Covers Me
Author: Pat Cunningham Devoto
An orphaned white boy and an eccentric black man forge an unlikely friendship in the segregated world of 1950s Alabama. The boy, John, whose beloved mother has died, now faces a loveless future with his alcoholic uncle on a sharecropper’s farm in the Alabama Black Belt — an abusive life he soon dreams of escaping. The black man, Tuway, works by day in the town bank. By ni….Read More
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