Finalist for the 2019 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction "In this suspenseful novel . . . Boyd gives a chilling portrait of the white terrorist network...

Finalist for the 2019 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

"In this suspenseful novel . . . Boyd gives a chilling portrait of the white terrorist network in the US during the time of Timothy McVeigh, convicted of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing." --BBC Culture

Blanche McCrary Boyd's first novel in twenty years continues the story of former activist Ellen Burns, whose search for her estranged brother leads her across the country and into the dark abyss of racism and white supremacy, and the confrontation that occurs when she learns the truth about her family's past.

Author: Blanche McCrary Boyd
Publisher: Catapult
Published: 05/14/2019
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.70w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781640091986


Award: PEN/Faulkner Award - Finalist

About the Author
Blanche McCrary Boyd has taught at Connecticut College since 1982. She has written four novels--Terminal Velocity, The Revolution of Little Girls, Mourning the Death of Magic, and Nerves--as well as a collection of essays, The Redneck Way of Knowledge. Among the awards Boyd has won are a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fiction Fellowship, a Creative Writing Fellowship from the South Carolina Arts Commission, and a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Creative Writing from Stanford University.