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Doors open at 5:30 PM. This event is free and open to the public with no registration required.Join us in person at East Asheville Library when Earl Swift discusses his new work of narrative nonfiction, Hell Put to Shame, with Patricia Furnish, host of the Malaprop's Crime & Politics Book Club.
From the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Chesapeake Requiem comes a gripping new work of narrative nonfiction telling the forgotten story of the mass killing of eleven Black farmhands on a Georgia plantation in the spring of 1921—a crime that exposed for the nation the existence of “peonage,” a form of slavery that gained prominence across the American South after the Civil War.
Earl Swift is the author of the New York Times bestseller Chesapeake Requiem, which was named to ten best-of-the-year lists. His other books include Across the Airless Wilds, Auto Biography, The Big Roads, and Where They Lay. A former reporter for the Virginian-Pilot and a contributor to Outside and other publications, he is a fellow of Virginia Humanities at the University of Virginia. He lives in the Blue Ridge mountains west of Charlottesville.
Patricia Furnish holds a Ph.D. in modern Native American history from the University of Oklahoma, where she studied the Society of American Indians and their political activism for U.S. citizenship for all Native peoples during the Progressive Era. She also has an MFA in documentary film and an MA in Spanish language and literature. Patricia hosts two book clubs at Malaprop's: the Notorious HBC and Crime and Politics. You can learn more about Patricia at patriciafurnish.com.
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East Asheville Public Library, 3 Avon Road,Asheville,NC,United States
