In the Upper Country: A Novel Sociology of Class This extraordinary New York Times

This extraordinary New York Times bestseller reexamines a pivotal event of the civil rights movement--the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till--"and demands that we do the one vital thing we aren't often enough asked to do with history: learn from it" ( The Atlantic)

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In the Upper Country: A Novel Sociology of Class This extraordinary New York TimesThe fates of two unforgettable womenone just beginning a journey of reckoning and self discovery and the other completing her life's last vital actintertwine in this sweeping, powerful novel set at the terminus of the Underground Railroad. In the 1800s in Dunmore, a Canadian town settled by people fleeing enslavement in the American south, young Lensinda Martin works for a crusading Black journalist. One night, a neighboring farmer summons Lensinda