Ernest J. Gaines, A Lesson Before Dying, 1993

A deep and compassionate novel about a young man who returns to 1940s Cajun country to visit a Black youth on death row for a crime he didn't commit. Together they come to understand the heroism of resisting.

"Enormously moving.... Gaines unerringly evokes the place and time about which he writes." —Los Angeles Times

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A Lesson Before Dying