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Murder in Mississippi
Murder in Mississippi | John Safran
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In 2009 John Safran, a controversial Australian journalist, spent an uneasy few days interviewing one of Mississippi's most notorious white supremacists. A year later, he hears that the man has been murdered by a young black man. But this is far from a straightforward race killing. Safran flies back to Mississippi in a bid to discover what really happened, immersing himself in a world of clashing white separatists, black lawyers, police investigators, oddball neighbours and the killer himself. In the end, he discovers just how profoundly complex the truth about someone's life - and death - can be.A brilliantly innovative true-crime story. Safran paints an engrossing and revealing portrait of race, money, sex and power in the modern American South. 'John Safran's captivating inquiry into a murder in darkest Mississippi is by turns informative, frightening and hilarious' - John Berendt, author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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keepingupwiththepenguins
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Safran embarks on his investigation with all the preconceptions you‘d expect upon hearing that a white supremacist might have been murdered by a black man. He charged in with a bit of a white saviour mentality, to be honest. He thought he‘d EXPOSE INJUSTICE and FIX RACISM… and, of course, nothing of the sort came to pass. Full review: https://keepingupwiththepenguins.com/murder-in-mississippi-john-safran/

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Oblomov26
Murder in Mississippi | John Safran
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I have fallen down a John Safran hole recently. John realises that he had met and interviewed (and pranked) a white supremacist in Louisiana who was murdered by a black man. When it transpires that the man who committed the murder worked doing odd jobs for the victim and that the case included a sexual component and John has to investigate. An interesting true crime tale, investigating the role that race, sex and money had played in the murder.

8little_paws I freaking loved this book. It was also published as God'll cut you down 6y
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LeahBergen
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Oops! I forgot to post yesterday. John Berendt‘s “frightening and hilarious” blurb has me intrigued.

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CherryPie Great song! 7y
CrowCAH The family was over; understandable! 7y
LeahBergen @CherryPie SUCH a great song. 👍🏻 7y
LeahBergen @CrowCAH 😘😘 7y
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AmberWB
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This book was...interesting. John Safran is a “white Jewish Australian documentarian and humorist” and even mentions in the book that writing a book is not the same as filming a documentary. This is apparent in the book. I think part of my issue with the book was his writing style as well as how he approached Mississippi and its‘ citizens. I found myself wincing at many of his descriptions.

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AmberWB
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This is my pick for the @bookriot Read Harder Challenge- True Crime. I‘ve been struggling to get through it- I think it is the writing style more than anything. However, I can‘t get this passage out of my mind. I teach high school and I see so many students that this applies to. Would their lives be any different if they‘d had more support from home?

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Jeg
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Loved reading this book. I'm much better reading John Safran than watching him. Watching him when he is so confrontational makes me uncomfortable. Even though I agree with him. Much easier for me to read him.

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Jeg
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Op shop finds yesterday. Could not wait to get home to start the John Safran book. Thank you @MrsMalaprop for introducing him to me. I'm loving it. Would love to stay home today and just read! But have things to do. 😞 . Despite my huge TBR pile I just had to fit this one in now.

MrsMalaprop 👏👏👏 Hope you like it. You know I'm happy to loan you books anytime. Will bring a couple of Litsy-recommended reads to book club to see if you'd like to borrow any of them 😊. 7y
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AlizaApp
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I love #TrueCrime but I found this one a little cringe-y. It's an interesting case, but the author's comedic take on the genre and odd fascination with American race relations (he is a white Australian) were off-putting. #RogueBookBingo

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