Like Trees, Walking: A Novel

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Based on the true story of a modern-day lynching in America, Ravi Howard's widely acclaimed debut novel exposes one of the most tragic chapters in the history of the American South.

On the morning of March 21, 1981, in Mobile, Alabama, nineteen-year-old Michael Donald was found dead, his body badly beaten and hanging from a tree on Herndon Avenue. Brothers Paul and Roy Deacon of the Deacon Memorial Funeral Home are called upon to bury their close friend and classmate, and the experience will leave them forever changed. Along with other residents of their hometown, the Deacon brothers must struggle to understand the circumstances surrounding Donald's murderthe city's first lynching in more than sixty years and a gruesome reminder of racial inequalities in the New South.

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"The verdict: A breathtaking debut." -- Atlanta Journal-Constitution

"This is a gripping tale of evil and injustice, and a fine debut from a talented writer." -- Shelf Awareness

Author Bio

Ravi Howard was the winner of the 2001 Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Award. He received his MFA from University of Virginia, where he studied with Charles Baxter and Margot Livesey. He is a native of Montgomery, Alabama. Currently at work on his next novel, he lives in Mobile, AL.