Deer Creek Drive: A Reckoning of Memory and Murder in the Mississippi Delta by Lowry, Beverly
Deer Creek Drive: A Reckoning of Memory and Murder in the Mississippi Delta by Lowry, Beverly

Deer Creek Drive: A Reckoning of Memory and Murder in the Mississippi Delta

The stunning true story of a murder that rocked the Mississippi Delta and forever shaped one author's...
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Author: Beverly Lowry
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Deer Creek Drive: A Reckoning of Memory and Murder in the Mississippi Delta by Lowry, Beverly

Deer Creek Drive: A Reckoning of Memory and Murder in the Mississippi Delta

$40.78
Deer Creek Drive: A Reckoning of Memory and Murder in the Mississippi Delta by Lowry, Beverly

Deer Creek Drive: A Reckoning of Memory and Murder in the Mississippi Delta

$40.78
Author: Beverly Lowry
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
The stunning true story of a murder that rocked the Mississippi Delta and forever shaped one author's life and perception of home.

"Mix together a bloody murder in a privileged white family, a false accusation against a Black man, a suspicious town, a sensational trial with colorful lawyers, and a punishment that didn't fit the crime, and you have the best of southern gothic fiction. But the very best part is that the story is true." --John Grisham

In 1948, in the most stubbornly Dixiefied corner of the Jim Crow south, society matron Idella Thompson was viciously murdered in her own home: stabbed at least 150 times and left facedown in one of the bathrooms. Her daughter, Ruth Dickins, was the only other person in the house. She told authorities a Black man she didn't recognize had fled the scene, but no evidence of the man's presence was uncovered. When Dickins herself was convicted and sentenced to life in prison, the community exploded. Petitions pleading for her release were drafted, signed, and circulated, and after only six years, the governor of Mississippi granted Ruth Dickins an indefinite suspension of her sentence and she was set free.

In Deer Creek Drive, Beverly Lowry--who was ten at the time of the murder and lived mere miles from the Thompsons' home--tells a story of white privilege that still has ramifications today, and reflects on the brutal crime, its aftermath, and the ways it clarified her own upbringing in Mississippi.

Author: Beverly Lowry
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 08/01/2023
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.10w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9781984898364

About the Author
BEVERLY LOWRY is the author of six novels and four previous works of nonfiction. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Mississippi Review, Granta, and many other publications. She has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Texas Institute of Letters, and the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters. She lives in Austin, Texas.
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