02480cam a2200337 4500 285875716 TxAuBib 20170223120000.0 ||||||s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781603063968 160306396X B07F6HWP55 Amazon 0f3f5218-3f7a-40e6-a312-099177d58261 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2844193 OverDrive (Product ID) 2844193 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Howell, Ross Jr. Forsaken [Libby]. NewSouth Inc., 2015. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 907kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 907kB. Fiction. Literature. HTML:<p>In April 1912 in Hampton, Virginia, white eighteen-year-old reporter Charles Mears covers his first murder case, a trial that roiled racial tensions. An uneducated African American girl, Virginia Christian, was tried for killing her white employer. Virgie died in the electric chair one day after her seventeenth birthday, the only female juvenile executed in Virginia history. Charlie tells the story of the trial and its aftermath. Woven into his narrative are actual court records, letters, newspaper stories, and personal accounts, reflecting the arc of history in characters large and small, in events local and global. There is much to admire in the pages of Forsaken, especially the vivid sense of time and place, Hampton Roads after the Civil War and Reconstruction. The novel's premise is ambitious, its events striking and tragic, and fiction and nonfiction are deftly blended in this powerful read on the themes of injustice, corruption, and racial conflict set in the poisonous epoch known as Jim Crow.</p>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2017-02-22 23:00:01. http://camellia.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=0f3f5218-3f7a-40e6-a312-099177d58261 https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=0f3f5218-3f7a-40e6-a312-099177d58261&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=0f3f5218-3f7a-40e6-a312-099177d58261&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=0f3f5218-3f7a-40e6-a312-099177d58261&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)