Goodreads giveaway for Jesus Tree by Stephen Doster!!
From Wednesday, October 1 – midnight on Saturday, November 1, ten (10) copies will be given away to Goodreads’ members in United States. Be the first and go for it TOMORROW! www.sdoster.com Represented by Loiacono Literary Agency www.loiaconoliteraryagency.com.
Knowing this really happened gives you a whole different perspective of what it was like for blacks and poor whites in the south during the early 20th century.
In the summer of 1932, Ben, a black man originally from Sapelo Island, Georgia, heads to Waycross to hunt for work with his cousin Eli. Eli is lynched on a tall Georgia pine, for a crime he did not commit, which the people then named the “Jesus Tree.” Then Ben is wrongfully accused of murdering a white Methodist preacher. In fear for his family’s life, he is framed by the most influential man in town, Clayborne Cutler, and given forty years in a prison camp. What transpires between 1932 and 1972 will stay with you forever. Ben’s faith, integrity, and honor triumph over all evil.