Event Lectures and Symposia Backroads and Buried Bodies: Southern Noir with S.A. Cosby

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Part of National Book Festival ; 2023 National Book Festival

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S.A. Cosby returns his readers to rural Virginia in his thriller “All the Sinners Bleed” which follows a Black officer who must investigate the death of a former student responsible for murdering his teacher. Throughout the book, Cosby explores his protagonist’s inner world and what it means for him to be a Black officer in the South. Moderated by Erek L. Barron.

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