May Book Club -The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi by Wright Thompson

Join us for our next book club meeting as we discuss The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi by Wright Thompson.

In summer 1955, two men, Roy Bryant and J. W. Milam, were charged with the torture and murder of the fourteen-year-old Emmett Till in Money, Mississippi, and acquitted in a mockery of justice, leaving behind an ink cloud of a false confession. In The Barn, Wright Thompson reveals the true nature and location of the long night of hell that August: inside the barn of one of the killers, within the six-square-mile grid whose official name is Township 22 North, Range 4 West,

Section 2, West Half, fabled in the Delta of myth as the birthplace of the blues, and twenty-three miles from Thompson’s own family farm.

We’ll also be choosing June's book at this meeting, so come ready with your suggestions and recommendations. Whether you’ve finished the book or are just curious, we’d love to see you there for a great conversation!