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Strange Fruit
Strange Fruit | Lillian Eugenia Smith
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When it was first published in 1944, this novel sparked immediate controversy and became a huge bestseller. It captured with devastating accuracy the deep-seated racial conflicts of a tightly knit southern town. The book is as engrossing and incendiary now as the day it was written.
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swynn
Strange Fruit | Lillian Eugenia Smith
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Published in 1944, this one begins with an interracial relationship and ends with a lynching and in between reads like a catalog of ugliness in the early-20th century American South. (And let's face it, not just the South). The prose is sometimes a bit overdone, but really it's the relentless angry-making subject matter that makes it a difficult read. Trigger warnings for, well, everything. Not perfect, but I'm calling it a pick for its insights.

Alfoster Remember loving this one too! 5y
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GinaAnderson
Strange Fruit | Lillian Eugenia Smith
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An #uglycover on a book about an ugly subject. #somethingforsept

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