![]() M, I, crooked-letter, crooked-letter, I, crooked-letter, crooked-letter, I, humpback, humback, I. How did you come up with the title?įranklin: Title's a pneumonic device used to teach children (mostly southern children) how to spell Mississippi. Q: Tell us a bit about your latest book Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter. And now the two men who once called each other friend are forced to confront the past they've buried and ignored for decades. He and Larry have no reason to cross paths until another girl disappears and Larry is blamed again. Larry, a mechanic, lives a solitary existence, never able to rise above the whispers of suspicion. His friendship with Larry was broken, and then Silas left town. The incident shook the county-and perhaps Silas most of all. She was never found and Larry never confessed, but all eyes rested on him as the culprit. ![]() But then tragedy struck: Larry took a girl on a date to a drive-in movie, and she was never heard from again. ![]() Yet for a few months the boys stepped outside of their circumstances and shared a special bond. Their worlds were as different as night and day: Larry, the child of lower-middle-class white parents, and Silas, the son of a poor, single black mother. In the late 1970s, Larry Ott and Silas "32" Jones were boyhood pals. ![]() Edgar Award-winning author Tom Franklin returns with his most accomplished and resonant novel so far-an atmospheric drama set in rural Mississippi. ![]()
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