50 Books Set in the 50 States
50 Books, 50 States: A Literary Map of America
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This unforgettable novel captures childhood in a small town in Alabama and the crisis of conscience that rocked it. It's widely regarded as compassionate, dramatic, and deeply moving, with heightened focus on the roots of human behaviour. Innocence and experience, kindness and cruelty, love and hatred, and many more parallels all come into play.