The House of White Roses
I Summer, 1955. The heat in the Mississippi Delta was a blanket that smothered. It pressed down on the cotton fields and the corn and the dead oak trees hanging with Spanish moss like the beards of dead men. Catherine DuBois was twenty-four and cleaned rooms at the Swan Hotel in downtown Memphis. She looked older than her age--not from work, but from her family. The DuBois family once owned the...
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