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Lay That Trumpet in Our Hands : A Novel by McCarthy, Susan Carol is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Here is one of those rare and remarkable debuts that herald the appearance of a major new talent on the literary scene. Inspired by real events, Lay That Trumpet In Our Hands is a wise and luminous story about a northern family, a southern town, and the senseless murder that sparks an extraordinary act of courage. To this day, my family is in disagreement as to precisely when the nightmare began. For me, it was the morning Daddy and Luther discovered Marvin, beaten, shot, and dying, in the Klan’s stomping grounds off Round Lake Road. My brother Ren disagrees. He points to the small cluster of scars that begin just outside his left eye and trail horizontally across his temple to the top of his ear. Ren claims it started when the men in white robes took the unprecedented step of shooting at two white children. Others say it was when Mr. Thurgood Marshall of the NAACP and Mr. Hoover’s FBI came to town. Mother and Daddy shake their heads. In their minds, the real beginning was much earlier....

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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.

Author
McCarthy, Susan Carol
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Published
2002
Language
EN
ISBN
9782001043156
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Fiction, Literary Fiction, Young Adult
Rating
4.5 / 5 (222 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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