Billy

The haunting first novel by lbert French; a story of racial injustice as unsentimental as it is heartbreaking. The story of Billy Lee Turner, a ten-year-old boy convicted of murdering a white girl in Mississippi in 1937, illuminates the monstrous face of racism in America with searing clarity and power. Told in the rich accents of the American South, Billy's story is told amid the picking fields and city streets, the heat, dust and poverty of the Depression-era region.