Tomb of the Unknown Racist: A Novel

Boyd, Blanche McCrary

ISBN 10: 164009198X / ISBN 13: 9781640091986

Published by Counterpoint (edition Reprint), 2019

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Tomb of the Unknown Racist: A Novel
• Publisher: Counterpoint (edition Reprint)
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 164009198X
• ISBN 13: 9781640091986
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: Reprint.
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

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.

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.