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A chilly spring night in rural South Carolina at the tail end of Reconstruction, the murder of innocents. This is actually the setting for the initial chapter of the historical thriller, A Strange and Bitter Fruit.Thomas "Tee" Powell, 15, manages to escape as his family is lynched. His father, Zeke, mom Hessie and young sisters Lannie and Effie were hung to instruct the blacks of Aiken that voting is not the right of the past slaves, not anymore.He is upset, but rather than wildly lashing out at the Klansmen that murdered his family, he operates away. After having a devastating detour to Tallahassee, Tee joins the Army and results in the West, at a distant Army outpost on the lip of the Black colored Hills. Here, he matures and begins to accept responsibility for his life and then for the lives of others. After six years, days gone by, in the form of two of the Klansmen, one now a U.S. Senator on a mission to sign a treaty with the Indians, confronts him.He previously buried his earlier profound, even changing his previous name. Now, he has to confront it at once, starting with both killers that joined his fort. Trained by the Army to destroy, Tee emerges from his exile and requires revenge on those that devoted the murder of his family, you start with both men. His purpose is currently clear, he must take revenge, and he proceeds ruthlessly to take action. But revenge has its cost, and Tee suffers that price. Many innocent people are wiped out, and he battles with the guilt.A Weird and Bitter Fruit is the story of revenge and its own consequences. It really is a story of assault and race, a true American history. The book raises serious questions: Is there a limit on revenge? Is there an action so awful that any response, no matter how vicious, is just?A Weird and Bitter Fruit, although it occurs in the 19th Century, confronts the listener with lots of the issues of contest and violence that people continue to live with today.
