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White Tears

Published
Mar 2017
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Literary Literary
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288

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White Tears is a ghost story, a terrifying murder mystery, a timely meditation on race, and a love letter to all the forgotten geniuses of American music and Delta Mississippi Blues.

Two twenty-something New Yorkers. Seth is awkward and shy. Carter is the glamorous heir to one of America's great fortunes. They have one thing in common: an obsession with music. Seth is desperate to reach for the future. Carter is slipping back into the past. When Seth accidentally records an unknown singer in a park, Carter sends it out over the Internet, claiming it's a long lost 1920s blues recording by a musician called Charlie Shaw. When an old collector contacts them to say that their fake record and their fake bluesman are actually real, the two young white men, accompanied by Carter's troubled sister Leonie, spiral down into the heart of the nation's darkness, encountering a suppressed history of greed, envy, revenge, and exploitation.

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Feb 2018 Vintage ISBN 1101973218
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Mar 2018 Penguin (UK) ISBN 0241977878
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First Edition Mar 2017 Knopf ISBN 0451493699
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Mar 2017 Knopf ISBN B01HA4LFUM
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Mar 2017 Knopf ISBN 0451493702
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Mar 2017 Penguin ISBN 0241977886
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Mar 2017 Random House Audio ISBN B01MUYWY0S
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Apr 2017 Whole Story Audiobooks ISBN B06XY39FJ7
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