WRIGHT THOMPSON’s family farm in Mississippi is 23 miles from the site of one of the most notorious and consequential killings in American history—the murder of Emmett Till—yet he had to leave the state for college before he learned the first thing about it. Thompson’s unforgettable new book, The Barn, is a shocking and revelatory account of that crime and how the truth was erased for so long. It is a story about property, and money, and power, and white supremacy. Thompson will bring to life the small group of dedicated people who have been engaged in the hard, fearful business of putting the killing floor of the barn on the map of the Delta andAmerica and, in so doing, mapping the road this country must travel if we are to heal our oldest, deepest wound.