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Set in the small-town, pre-civil rights South, The Hawk and the Sun
is the story of one day in the life of Dandelion, a physically
impaired man who is the sole black resident in the town of Tilden.
Years before, the birth of a mixed-race child to a white prostitute
had precipitated an outpouring of hatred against Tilden's black
citizens, all of whom but Dandelion had been driven from town. In
this atmosphere of smoldering self-righteousness, Dandelion
survives on handouts and what little he can earn from odd jobs.
Finally, the town turns against him as well. Seen hurrying from the
house of the neurotic Miss Ella as her screams fill the air of an
August morning, Dandelion is apprehended and falsely accused of
rape. Before the day's end, he is tortured and lynched. In his
rendering of Dandelion, of those who murdered him, of those who
looked the other way, and of the lone white man who stood futilely
against the mob, Byron Herbert Reece brings his readers face to
face with the horrifying spectacle of collective fear and racism.
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