Word: bradysboro
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Sick Shell. Duncan gets a sense of dislocation as soon as he hits the once-sleepy town of Bradysboro and hears a booster babbling about the "threshold of a new era." At his family's disintegrating tobacco plantation, he finds his father a sick shell, echoing with remembrances of the South's past and pointedly deaf to the whistle of a passing train. Duncan's sister is about to marry a progressive-minded preacher who is less interested in racial equality than he is in evening the score with erstwhile "first families" like the Welshes. Logan...
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