A Lesson Before Dying

novel by Gaines

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In Ernest J. Gaines
…Book Critics Circle Award for A Lesson Before Dying (1993), the story of two African Americans—an intellectually disabled man wrongly accused of murder and a teacher who visits him in prison—living in Bayonne. The novella The Tragedy of Brady Sims (2017) follows a newspaper journalist as he researches “a human…
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