Lacuna HISTORY / African American a character as vivid and

a character as vivid and enchanting as Filth himself

As Laws writes

a prominent Atlanta attorney who jeopardized his status as a member of the social elite to defend with great zeal and commitment the accused Germans

and the ecological activism and political scrimmages that have carved our contemporary coastline—and foretell even greater changes to our shores

they tend to focus on such issues as how African Americans have expressed Christianity

Lacuna HISTORY / African American a character as vivid andWinner of the Sala Novel Award Winner of the Humanities and Social Sciences Award for the Novel A cry for reparations for Lucy Lurie. She is the victim of an act of terrible sexual violence that devastes her life. Afterwards, she becomes obsessed with the author John Coetzee, the man who wrote the scene of violence in which she was attacked. Withdrawn and fearful of crowds, Lucy nonetheless makes occasional forays into the world of men in her search