The heat in Magnolia County did not simply make you sweat. It made you confess.
Elias Thorne learned this in the summer of 1953, when he arrived back in his hometown of Oakhaven, Mississippi, carrying a duffel bag, a discharge paper from the army, and a mind full of ideas that had no place in a county where the most exciting event of the year was the magnolia bloom festival. He was twenty-three years old, five feet ten inches tall, with shoulders that had been broadened by...
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