“Hunt is a tremendously talented fashioner of sentences” – The Evening Road by Laird Hunt

Inspired by ‘Strange Fruit’, which started out as a poem and became a song, first famously rendered by Billie Holiday back in the 1930s, The Evening Road concerns a lynching, and the local community’s ensuing excitement to attend. It’s 1920. First we find ourselves in the company of Ottie Lee Henshaw, a young woman busy sharpening pencils with the idea of burying them in the neck of her boss, Bud...

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