Book description
Pete Dexter’s National Book Award–winning tour de force tells the mesmerizing story of a shocking crime that shatters lives and exposes the hypocrisies of a small Southern town.
The time and place: Cotton Point, Georgia, just after World War II. The event: the murder of a fourteen-year-old black girl by…
Why read it?
1 author picked Paris Trout as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
It's a great novel. I have never seen the film made in the 90s. Evil abounds in the character of Paris Trout, a miserly user who preys on the black community. He will kill for twenty cents.
My experience of reading was bonding with his victims, one of them a young girl, feeling I was as helpless as she was against Trout’s relentless hatred.
The value was bonding, witnessing, acknowledging this much badness, and measuring out the beauty of innocence, too. Again, I think it is one of the great American novels.
From Kathleen's list on novels in which children survive incredible odds.
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