The swamp does not forgive. It remembers.
Silas Beaumont knew this the way a man knows the shape of his own face—in the mirror, in the water, in the dark moments before sleep when the plantation's rot pressed against his eyes and he could not look away. The Beaumont cotton had died in 1929. Not from drought or flood or any of the ordinary calamities that visit the South—the way of it was subtler, more cruel. The price had fallen,...
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