JACKAL : A Novel : [Collectible, Advance Uncorrected Proof]

Bantam, Random House, 2022. Uncorrected Proof . Soft cover. Collectible - Uncorrected Proo/None as Issued. Text/NEW & Bright. Collectible 2022, Advance Uncorrected Proof; w/a tentative publication date Oct. 2022 of a hardcover, & price of $27.00. Softcover/Fine. Debut novel of award-winning playwright & actress Erin E. Adams, a first-generation Haitian American writer & theatre artist w/a BA from Brown Univ., a MFA from The Old Globe & Univ. of San Diego Shiley Graduate Theatre Program, & a 2nd MFA in dramatic writing from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. This tragic socio-historical narrative tells of horrors of a town's re-occurring ugly governance --- a fostering of disappearing Black girls deemed unworthy by both authorities & media. Story of Liz Rocher, daughter of a Haitian immigrant single mother, who grew up in Johnstown, PA by Appalachian forests, where the KKK scattered recruitment flyers. Apprehensive, Liz returns to her home town for the wedding of a best friend. Moments after Liz lost sight of the newlywed's daughter Caroline, she felt uneasy. A piece of bloodied white fabric leads to a search, w/police, in the woods. Liz relives the past --- Keisha Woodson, the only other Black girl in Liz's high school at a summer night party, was found in the woods w/chest ripped open & heart removed. Liz probe's the town's records to find Keisha was but one of many found dead in the summer woods that none blinked an eye over --- All Black! All girls!