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2017
McKnight Artist Fellow, Creative Prose
The
FOG
MACHINE:
A Novel
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In
the epicenter of the civil rights movement—Mississippi in the sixties—lives
collide
as each person questions what freedom means and the price they’ll pay to have
it.
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Meet
Joan Barnes.
Twelve years old in the summer of 1964, freedom is her birthright.
It will take Joan years to understand that freedom means choices.
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Meet
C.J. Evans.
Born to a life of cleaning white folks’ houses in Jim Crow Mississippi,
this young black woman believes freedom must take a back seat to staying safe.
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Meet
Zach Bernstein.
For this Jewish University of Chicago law
student, freedom is in
his faith and commitment to justice.
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