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The Vain Conversation: A Novel

By Anthony Grooms, Clarence Major (Foreword by), T. Geronimo Johnson (Afterword)
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By Anthony Grooms, Clarence Major (Foreword by), T. Geronimo Johnson (Afterword)
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"A real-life racially motivated mass killing from 1946 is boldly and deeply reimagined [in this] incisive, gripping and empathetic novel" (Kirkus, starred review).

Inspired by true events, The Vain Conversation reflects on the 1946 lynching of two black couples in Georgia from the perspectives of three characters—Bertrand Johnson, one of the victims; Noland Jacks, a presumed perpetrator; and Lonnie Henson, a witness to the murders as a ten-year-old boy. Lonnie's inexplicable feelings of cul...

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