Jubal: A Novel

A black man's entanglement with a white family leads to trouble in this historical novel set in Depression Era Mississippi.

To everyone in the small town of Linville, Mississippi, Jubal Jefferson is known simply as Dummy. A large black man who almost never speaks, he is forever pulling his mother's laundry wagon around town. Little else is known about him—apart from the fact that his father disappeared after the flood of 1927.

For as long as anybody can remember, the Dunaway family have be...