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A Novel
Amistad
March 2007
On Sale: February 20, 2007
272 pages
ISBN: 0060529598
EAN: 9780060529598
Hardcover
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Whenever the phone rang at the home of Paul and Roy Deacon
in the early morning hours, it often meant that someone had
died. The family owned the Deacon Memorial Funeral Home and
had buried the loved ones of Mobile, Alabama's black
families for more than one hundred years. On the morning of
March 21, 1981, the call was different: The body of
nineteen-year-old Michael Donald had been found hanging from
a tree on Herndon Avenue. The murder shook the citizens of
Mobile, especially the Deacon brothers. They had called
Michael Donald a friend. As the brothers navigate through their teen years, they face
familiar rites of passage—prom night, graduation, college
life—but the family business forces them to confront the
rites death brings for passage from this world to the next.
Roy and Paul search for solace from the grief of their
murdered friend, from church sanctuaries to cemeteries,
protest marches to courtrooms, from the tree-lined streets
of Mobile to the dark beach roads on the Eastern Shore. The brothers and their hometown also have to face the
ramifications of the first lynching in more than sixty
years. Mobile had been as peaceful as its tree-lined streets
were beautiful, but the murder gave the city its own sad
chapter in Alabama racial history. Like Birmingham's four
little girls, Selma's Bloody Sunday, and Tuskegee's
experiment, Mobile had the murder of Michael Donald. In this riveting debut, Ravi Howard explores a fictional
aftermath of a true story that will both haunt and
illuminate. The novel examines death, faith, truth, and
justice, elements that often intersect and at times collide.
An old tale set in modern times, Like Trees, Walking
explores the complexities and the promises of America's New
South.
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