White Tears: A novelWhite 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. "An incisive meditation on race, privilege and music. Spanning decades, this novel brings alive the history of old-time blues and America’s racial conscience."—Rabeea Saleem, Chicago Review of Books 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. |
Contents
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Section 2 | 12 |
Section 3 | 16 |
Section 4 | 24 |
Section 5 | 32 |
Section 6 | 52 |
Section 7 | 76 |
Section 8 | 82 |
Section 14 | 138 |
Section 15 | 140 |
Section 16 | 146 |
Section 17 | 152 |
Section 18 | 162 |
Section 19 | 204 |
Section 20 | 210 |
Section 21 | 214 |
Section 9 | 84 |
Section 10 | 104 |
Section 11 | 128 |
Section 12 | 132 |
Section 13 | 134 |
Section 22 | 256 |
Section 23 | 258 |
Section 24 | 268 |
Section 25 | 270 |
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