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Ernest J. Gaines' new novella revolves around a courthouse taking pictures that leads a young reporter to discover the long report of contest and electricity in his small town and the partnership between the white sheriff and the dark man who "whipped children" to keep order. After Brady Sims pulls out a firearm in a courtroom and shoots his own child, who may have just been convicted of robbery and murder, he asks and then be allowed two hours before he'll give himself up to the sheriff. Once the editor of the local magazine asks his cub reporter to dig up a "human interest" report about Brady, he heads for the town's barbershop. It's the barbers and the regulars who hang out there who narrate with empathy, sadness, laughter, and a deep understanding the life span report of Brady Sims - an honorable, just, and unsparing man who, with his tough love, had been handed the task of keeping the dark children of Bayonne, Louisiana, in line to safeguard them from the unjust world in which they lived. And when his own child makes a fateful fault, it is up to Brady to handle the required reckoning. Within the sharing with, we learn the report of a tiny Southern town divided by contest and the dark community attempting to survive even while many of its inhabitants head off northward through the Great Migration.
