From the author of A Gathering of Old Men and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman comes a deep and compassionate novel. A young man who returns to 1940s Cajun country to teach visits a black youth on death row for a crime he didn't commit. Together they come to understand the heroism of resisting.

This critically acclaimed novel was an Oprah's Book Club selection and winner of a 1993 National Book Critics Circle Award.

"This majestic moving novel is an instant classic, a book that will be read, discussed and taught beyond the rest of our lives."
   CHICAGO TRIBUNE