Bibliograph

The tree of forgetfulness, a novel, Pam Durban

Type

Label

The tree of forgetfulness, a novel, Pam Durban

Language

eng

resource.governmentPublication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The tree of forgetfulness

Medium

electronic resource eBook

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Pam Durban

Series statement

Yellow shoe fiction

Sub title

a novel

Summary

In The Tree of Forgetfulness, writer Pam Durban, winner of the Lillian Smith Book Award, continues her exploration of southern history and memory. This mesmerizing and disquieting novel recovers the largely untold story of a brutal Jim Crow-era triple lynching in Aiken County, South Carolina. Through the interweaving of several characters' voices, Durban produces a complex narrative in which each section reveals a different facet of the event. The Tree of Forgetfulness resurrects a troubled past and explores the individual and collective loyalties that led a community to choose silence over ju

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