Cover of Wolf Whistle

Book 2003

Wolf Whistle

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Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Language
English
Published
2003
  • Children
  • Fiction
  • Race relations
  • Trials (Murder)
  • Mississippi, fiction
  • Fiction, legal

Based on the author's childhood memories of the murder of Emmett Till, the story of a Mississippi white-trash girl who teaches fourth grade at the Arrow Catcher Elementary School is the story of righteous racism and violence and the 1950s American Southern ethic at work.