A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines

A Lesson Before Dying

Ernest J. Gaines with Jay Long

256 pages first pub 1993 (editions)

fiction classics challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
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In the late 1940s backdrop of a small Cajun community, Jefferson, a young black man, is accused and convicted of a murder for perpetrating a shoot-out in a liquor store which left three men killed. Being the sole survivor of a crime that occurred ...

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