The Mercy Seat by Elizabeth Hartley Winthrop

272 pages first pub 2018 (editions)

fiction historical dark emotional reflective slow-paced
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As the sun begins to set over Louisiana one October day in 1943, a young black man faces the final hours of his life: at midnight, eighteen-year-old Willie Jones will be executed by electric chair for raping a white girl - a crime some believe he ...

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