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Based on the real story of his grandfather and two granduncles, Matt Bondurant's novel is a gripping tale of brotherhood, greed, and murder. The Bondurant boys were a notorious gang of roughnecks and moonshiners who ran liquor through Franklin County during Prohibition and after. The brothers played a central role in a major conspiracy trial and its violent end. In 1935, Sherwood Anderson, working on a magazine story, finds himself driving over the dusty red roads looking for the brothers and break the silence that shrouds Franklin County. In vivid, muscular prose, Matt Bondurant brings these mentheir dark deeds, their long silences, their deep desiresto life. His knowledge of the passion, violence, and desperation at the center of this world is both heartbreaking and magnificent.
