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A prize-winning Southern master storyteller weaves a riveting tale of love, mystery and justice.
“Magic Time,” is a spellbinding stew of history, murder, courtroom drama, humor, love, betrayal, and justice. Moving between New York City and the New South of the early 1990s, with flashbacks to Mississippi's cataclysmic Freedom Summer of 1964, “Magic Time” tells the story of New York newspaper columnist Carter Ransom, a son of Mississippi, who had the great fortune and terrible luck of falling in love that summer of '64 with a New York—born civil rights worker who wound up being killed alongside three coworkers. Carter's father, the local judge, presided over the first trial of the murders. But now there's evidence that the original trial was flawed, even fraudulent. And the question, among many others, is whether the good judge was knowingly involved in a cover-up.
“Magic Time” is that rare thing: a page-turner whose driving plot line is matched by the depth of its moral vision.
“Magic Time,” is a spellbinding stew of history, murder, courtroom drama, humor, love, betrayal, and justice. Moving between New York City and the New South of the early 1990s, with flashbacks to Mississippi's cataclysmic Freedom Summer of 1964, “Magic Time” tells the story of New York newspaper columnist Carter Ransom, a son of Mississippi, who had the great fortune and terrible luck of falling in love that summer of '64 with a New York—born civil rights worker who wound up being killed alongside three coworkers. Carter's father, the local judge, presided over the first trial of the murders. But now there's evidence that the original trial was flawed, even fraudulent. And the question, among many others, is whether the good judge was knowingly involved in a cover-up.
“Magic Time” is that rare thing: a page-turner whose driving plot line is matched by the depth of its moral vision.
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"In Magic Time, Doug Marlette does with words what we are used to seeing him do so masterfully with pictures: he sets us down firmly in a sharply drawn time and place and tells us a great story. Magic Time proves that The Bridge was no fluke: Marlette is a great writer of Southern fiction, and he understands that region as it was in the turbulent days of the Civil Rights Movement, and as it has reshaped itself since."
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University
"It was the summer that divided time in America, and Doug Marlette has brought it--and the people who lived through and after it--so stingingly alive that it can never be forgotten. Magic Time is a blazing beautiful novel."
Anne Rivers Siddons, author of Peachtree Road and Sweetwater Creek
"Magic Time is a beautiful memorial to the brave young people who made the ultimate sacrifice in Mississippi during the Freedom Summer of 1964. Doug Marlette has vividly captured the spirit of history that animated those of us who were part of that extraordinary time."
John Lewis, U.S. House of Representatives