Elegy for Mary Turner: An Illustrated Account of a Lynching booker prize The first in Nathalie Léger’s

The first in Nathalie Léger’s acclaimed genre-defying triptych of books about the struggles and obsessions of women artists

interspersed with stories and memories of tiny buildings called summer kitchens

Author/Contributor(s): Skolnik

a memoir entitled The Damned Don't Cry: Pages from the Life of a Black Prisoner and Organizer

Elegy for Mary Turner: An Illustrated Account of a Lynching booker prize The first in Nathalie Léger’sAuthor Contributor(s): Williams, Rachel Marie Crane; Kaba, Mariame; Armstrong, Julie; Forehand, C. Tyrone Publisher: Verso Date: 3 16 2021 Binding: Paperback Condition: NEW A lyrical and haunting depiction of American racial violence and lynching, evoked through stunning full color artwork In late May 1918 in Valdosta, Georgia, ten Black men and one Black womanMary Turner, eight months pregnant at the timewere lynched and tortured by mobs of white