02463cam a2200373 i 4500 1902868342 TxAuBib 20250131120000.0 231222s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023058193 9781572843370 trade paperback 1572843373 trade paperback (OCoLC)1396975577 TxAuBib rda Pitts, Leonard, author. 54 miles : a novel / Leonard Pitts, Jr. Fifty-four miles. Chicago : Agate, [2024] ©2024. 335 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "A Bolden book.". "From Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Leonard Pitts, Jr. comes a historical page-turner about a family forced to grapple with its past amid a flashpoint in the American civil rights movement. In March 1965, young Adam, raised in Harlem by his white father, George, and Black mother, Thelma, returns to his parents' home state of Alabama to join in the voting rights campaign, only to be brutalized in the Bloody Sunday melee. He is still recovering when he is struck a heavy emotional blow, learning of a grim family secret that sends him spiraling further into danger, and drawing Thelma back to the South she both hates and fears. Meanwhile, Thelma's brother Luther is also spiraling, but in a different way. Forty-two years after his parents were lynched before his eyes, Luther has just made a shocking discovery. He's found the murderer, Floyd Bitters, helpless and enfeebled in a rest home -- literally at Luther's mercy. And Luther, who has never overcome this life-defining trauma, grapples with the awful question of what justice now demands. Set against a backdrop of racial conflict and transformation, 54 Miles explores what happens when cycles of trauma echo through generations, and what erupts when people are pushed to their breaking point"-- Back cover. 20250131. Selma to Montgomery Rights March (1965 : Selma, Ala.) Fiction. Civil rights movements Fiction. African Americans Civil rights Fiction. Children of rape victims Fiction. Alabama Fiction. Historical fiction. lcgft TXKIP