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audreysaurusrex 's review for:
The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi
by Wright Thompson
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
medium-paced
Rather than jumping from fact to fact, the author explores a lot of the feelings and experiences of people around Emmett during his life and the night of his murder, and Mississippi's culture before and since. It feels like less of a pile of facts than a story told in a southern style, meandering but always relevant to and circling back to the main point.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death, Hate crime, Racism, Kidnapping
Moderate: Death, Gun violence, Racial slurs, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Grief, Murder
Minor: Suicide, Terminal illness, Stalking