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The Song and the Silence: A Story About Family, Race, and What Was Revealed in a Small Town in the Mississippi Delta While Searching for Booker Wright

by Yvette Johnson

Atria. May 2017. 304p. ISBN 9781476754949. $26; ebk. ISBN 9781476754963. MEMOIR

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Filmmaker Johnson returns to the story of her grandfather Booker Wright and his murder—the subject of her 2012 documentary, Booker's Place: A Mississippi Story. [See Prepub Alert, 6/21/16.]

Reviewed by Molly McArdle , Jan 01, 2017

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