A Lesson Before Dying (Oprah's Book Club) Claire Douglas after a harrowing ordeal

after a harrowing ordeal

Ridge isn’t where he belongs

Their parents taught them to embrace both their Japanese heritage and the ways of their American homeland

New York Times bestselling author of Carving Shadows into Stone

from Harlem to Flushing Meadows to Red Hook

A Lesson Before Dying (Oprah's Book Club) Claire Douglas after a harrowing ordealNATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER 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. "An instant classic." Chicago Tribune A majestic, moving novel an instant classic, a book that will be read, discussed and taught beyond the rest of our lives" (Chicago Tribune), from the critically