Our LITTLE Secret: A Smoky Mountains Family Saga and Coming of Age Story Inspired by True Crimes - 3745

Is it possible to overcome a cruel, abusive, rural Appalachian upbringing steeped in racism, and help a black man solve the mystery of his great-grandfather's disappearance? Danny Jackson is a thirty-something year-old struggling to overcome his cruel, abusive and racist rural Appalachian upbringing, when he is visited by the ghost of Noble Peoples, the murdered black man buried on his family's farm. After visiting a seer who tells him he must go find Laurel Mountain to find the answers he's looking for, Noble's great-grandson, Martin Noble Peoples, comes to the mountains looking for Laurel Mountain, not knowing Laurel Mountain is a person. Martin meets Danny, who arranges a meeting between his grandmother, Laurel Mountain McLandon Jackson and Martin. Laurel Mountain finally discloses the secret she's carried nearly 80 years. It’s even more shocking than they imagined. Inspired by True Crimes A black man was murdered when the Rich Mountain Road to Cades Cove was being improved, near Townsend, Tennessee, in the 1920s. The killers were going to dump his body in the fill of the road and cover it with gravel, but my Great-great grandfather, William H. Lawson Jr., objected and let them bury the man on our farm near Lawson Crossroads. When I was growing up in the 1960s, anybody who knew about the grave called it “the N-word grave,” and in my spirit I never liked that word. I thought it was an ugly word. I was right. If you liked Scout Finch and Idgie Threadgoode you are going to love Laurel Mountain McLandon Jackson. Read the book. Answer the question. Join the conversation.
ASIN: B09M4YJL4V
VSKU: BVV.B09M4YJL4V.G
Condition: Good
Author/Artist:Johnson, Stanford|Cooper, Susan
Binding: Paperback