Shelfology Book Pairing

by Ernest J. Gaines

"I was not there, yet I was there. No, I did not go to the trial, I did not hear the verdict, because I knew all the time what it would be ..." So begins Grant Wiggins, the narrator of Ernest J. Gaines's powerful exploration of race, injustice, and resistance, "A Lesson Before Dying."

by William Faulkner