A Lesson Before Dying

The Keepers of the House

A Forever Kind of Love

A Lesson Before Dying

NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • A deep and compassionate novel about a young man who returns to 1940s Cajun country to visit a Black youth on death row for a crime he didn’t commit. Together they come to understand the heroism of resisting.

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