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02289aam a2200385 a 4500 001 5F450B74E04611E59D6F9BB8DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160302011346 008 150401s2016 alu 000 1 eng d 020 $a 1588383172 020 $a 9781588383174 (hardcover) 035 $a (OCoLC)906010761 040 $a YDXCP $b eng $e rda $c YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d HCO $d OCLCO $d OCP $d ZCU $d IW5 $d SILO 043 $a n-us-va 050 4 $a PS3608.O95526 $b F67 2016 082 04 $a [Fic] 100 1 $a Howell, Ross, $c Jr., $e author. 245 10 $a Forsaken : $b a novel / $c Ross Howell Jr. 260 $a Montgomery, AL : $b NewSouth Books, $c 2016. 300 $a 304 pages : $c 23 cm 520 $a "In April 1912 in Hampton, Virginia, white eighteen-year-old reporter Charles Mears covers his first murder case, a trial that roiled racial tensions. An uneducated African American girl, Virginia Christian, was tried for killing her white employer. "Virgie" died in the electric chair one day after her seventeenth birthday, the only female juvenile executed in Virginia history. Charlie tells the story of the trial and its aftermath. Woven into his narrative are actual court records, letters, newspaper stories, and personal accounts, reflecting the arc of history in characters large and small, in events local and global. Charlie falls in love with Harriet, a girl orphaned by the murder; meets Virgie's blind attorney George Fields, a former slave; and encounters physician Walter Plecker, a state official who pursues racial purity laws later emulated in Nazi Germany"--Jacket. 600 10 $a Christian, Virginia, $d 1894 or 1895-1912 $v Fiction. 600 10 $a Fields, George Washington, $d 1854-1932 $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Trials (Murder) $z Hampton $z Hampton $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Reporters and reporting $z Hampton $z Hampton $v Fiction. 650 0 $a African Americans $z Hampton $z Hampton $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Hampton (Va.) $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Virginia $x History $y 20th century $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 lcgft 941 $a 4 952 $l ORAX826 $d 20210602010158.0 952 $l DUPB413 $d 20180706021441.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20160716010431.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20160302013453.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5F450B74E04611E59D6F9BB8DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search