The Avenue, Clayton City

275 pp. Set in a fictional Southern town in the late 1930s, this depiction of lives fettered by racial prejudice burns with anger and bitterness. Lincoln, a professor at Duke and author of several works of nonfiction, obviously knows the milieu and has suffered from its injustices... To those who do not remember the time before civil-rights activism, this will be an eye-opening look at recent history. - Publishers Weekly