An Evening with Wright Thompson

MON, OCT 7, 7:30 PM (doors open at 7:00)
CIDER GALLERY (810 Pennsylvania St)

Free and open to the public.
The first 100 people in the door will receive a free hardcover copy of the book.

Wright Thompson grew up 23 miles from the site of one of America’s most noxious crimes—the murder of Emmett Till. The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi is an intimate and unflinching history of the land which nourished his own family and cost Emmett Till his life. Wright Thompson is the bestselling author of Pappyland and The Cost of These Dreams. He lives in Oxford, Mississippi, with his family.

“The Barn is the most brutal, layered and absolutely beautiful book about Mississippi, and really how the world conspired with the best and worst parts of Mississippi, I will ever read…Reporting and reckoning can get no better, or more important, than this.” - Kiese Laymon, author of Long Division and Heavy: An American Memoir

“An incredible history of a crime that changed America.” - John Grisham

“With integrity, and soul, Thompson unearths the terrible how and why, carrying us back and forth through time, deep in Mississippi—baring, sweat, soil, and heart all the way through.” - Imani Perry

This event is sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the Honors Program, the Hall Center for the Humanities, The Commons, the Office of Civil Rights and Title IX, the History Department, and the Department of African and African-American Studies.