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Through a merger of true crime, social history, and memoir, The Ballad of Karla Faye Tucker illustrates how a seemingly distant news story triggers a national reckoning and exposes a growing divide in America’s evangelical community. It’s a tale of how one woman defies all conventions of death row inmates, and her saga serves as an unlikely but fascinating prism for exploring American culture and the limits of forgiveness and transformation. It’s also a deeply personal reflection on how a father’s request leads his son to struggle with who he was raised to be and who he imagines becoming.MARK BEAVER is author of Suburban Gospel, a memoir about growing up in the 1980s Bible Belt. His prose has appeared in North American Review, Cra-zyhorse, River Teeth, Gulf Coast, Ninth Letter, and elsewhere. He is a graduate of UNC-Greensboro’s MFA program, and lives with his wife and daughters in Atlanta.
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