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Violence
A lot
A murder investigation; racial violence is part of the historical context; Southern Gothic atmosphere
Language
Some
Mild language
Sexual Content
Barely any
Mild content
Substance Use
Barely any
Mild content
Emotional Intensity
A lot
The specific difficulty of being an outsider in a community whose silence about violence is itself a form of historical preservation; Anna's determination to persist in the face of the South's particular institutional resistance
What this book is about
Anna Pigeon is transferred to a national park in Mississippi — the Trace, following the Natchez Trace Parkway — and arrives in a world very different from anything she's known: the American South's specific history of violence and silence. When a teenage girl is found hanging in the woods, Anna investigates in a community that is not inclined to help a northern ranger understand what happened. Nevada Barr's tenth Anna Pigeon novel is the most socially conscious of the series, directly engaging with the history of racial violence in the South and the specific difficulty of investigating in a community where institutional silence is structural.
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tenth Anna Pigeon novel by Nevada Barr; Mississippi / Natchez Trace setting
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