Download The Last Suppers by Mandy Mikulencak PDF
By Mandy Mikulencak
Many kids have grown up within the shadow of Louisiana’s Greenmount kingdom penal complex. such a lot of them—sons and daughters of corrections officials and staff—left where once they can. but Ginny Polk selected to come again to paintings as a jail cook dinner. She is familiar with the cruel truth of lifestyles inside these walls—the cries of fellows being overwhelmed, the strains of shuffling inmates chained jointly. but she hasn't ever visible them as monsters, now not even those sentenced to execution. That’s why, between her tasks, Ginny has taken on a different accountability: getting ready their final meals.
Pot roast or purple beans and rice, coconut cake with seven-minute frosting or red meat neck stew . . . regardless of the males ask for Ginny prepares, even assembly with their heartbroken relations to get each one recipe excellent. It’s her method of honoring their humanity, displaying a few compassion in their ultimate hours. The felony board frowns upon the ritual, as does Roscoe Simms, Greenmount’s Warden. Her daddy’s ally earlier than he was once murdered, Roscoe has constantly watched out for Ginny, and their friendship has advanced into anything deep and unforeseen. but if Ginny stumbles upon information regarding the fellow finished for killing her father, it results in a sequence of darkish and painful revelations.
fact, justice, mercy—none of those are so simple as Ginny as soon as believed. And the main surprising crimes is probably not those dedicated out of anger or greed, however the sacrifices we make for love.
Read or Download The Last Suppers PDF
Similar u.s. historical fiction books
Brad Rainey goals of enjoying baseball within the great leagues, yet Peggy tells him she is pregnant, and he's the daddy. the newborn dies in Brad’s fingers, and all his goals disappear. Brad, uninterested in Peggy’s ridicule and domination whereas she flirts with their buyers within the deli they've got, drops out of her lifestyles in Reno.
THE SHIPS during this novel a gaggle of younger males migrate to the center of the pineapple plantations in Honduras, on a trip of discovery and private liberation, a tender hero is able to dwell an adventure of affection and conflict. Roberto Quesada's narrative strikes in addition to the ability and innocence of younger lives destined to defeat the evil forces of social injustice and the abuse of energy of international intervention.
New Border Voices: An Anthology
While the “counter-canon” itself turns into canonized, it’s time to reload. this can be the proposal that animates New Border Voices, an anthology of contemporary and infrequently visible writing via Borderlands artists from El Paso to Brownsville—and 100 miles on each side. tough the idea that borderlands writing is the privileged made of the Seventies and ’80s, the colourful group represented during this assortment deals tasty bits of nearby fare that would attract quite a lot of readers and scholars.
Peoushi, the lengthy Hair, Custer. That was once what local americans known as him. His tale comes from the annals of the West. now not the exaggerated heroism and insanity that it's going to develop into in Hollywood, yet a guy doing the paintings he selected. a qualified soldier. And to do the paintings required the cloth to hand, males of the 7th usa Cavalry; males from many countries, talking diverse languages and combating underneath a typical flag.
Extra resources for The Last Suppers
Sample text