Red River - Novel

"April 13, 1873. What happened that day in the small southern town of Colfax, Louisiana was called 'The Colfax Riot.' But it was something more devastating. Weaving together the history and the story of her own family, Lalita Tademy, author of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller Cane River, has written an epic wok of fiction: the dramatic, intertwining story of two families struggling to survive and thrive in an America deeply divided after the Civil War. For the newly freed black residents of Colfax, the beginning of Reconstruction promised them the right to vote, own property, and, at last, control their own lives. But in the space of a day, angry whites would take back Colfax in one of the deadliest incidents of racial violence in Southern history."