Beneath a Ruthless Sun

Beneath a Ruthless SunBy: Gilbert King "Exposes the sinister complexity of American racism King tells this story with grace and sensitivity, and his narrative never flags." Jeffrey Toobin, New York Times Book Review From the author of the Pulitzer Prize winning bestseller Devil in the Grove comes the story of a small town with a big secret. In December 1957, the wife of a Florida citrus baron is raped in her home while her husband is away. She claims a "husky Negro" did

and completely impossible to put down

tells what happens when a reclusive poet and her band of pretend Gypsies wait for the midnight circus train to arrive

a parable for the twenty-first-century economy

seductions

With its sparkling depiction of New York’s social strata

his mom tells him to get a job to pay for a new one

By: Rich Cohen     The gritty

How would they escape from the dire situation

In A Sunburned Country is his report on what he found in an entirely different place: Australia

along with Phoebe

In the blockbuster "End of the Spider-Verse

or as solo travelers