The Tragedy of Brady Sims (Vintage Contemporaries)
Description
When a courthouse shooting rocks a small Louisiana town, a young reporter is sent to find a “human interest” angle on Brady Sims—only to discover that the incident is the latest rupture in a much older system of race, authority, and survival. As the story unfolds through the voices of barbershop regulars who knew Brady intimately, we learn how power was enforced, how justice was negotiated, and how one man’s harsh “tough love” was shaped by a world that offered Black families little protection. Ernest J. Gaines’s signature blend of empathy and unsparing clarity turns this novella into a meditation on moral responsibility, the cost of keeping order, and the painful inheritance passed from one generation to the next. Against the backdrop of a community divided by race and shaped by the Great Migration, the book asks what reckoning truly means when the law and the people it governs are never fully aligned.
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paperback
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Published Jan 1, 2017
114 pages
ISBN: 9780525434467
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First Published
2017
Language
eng
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