01369cam a2200241 4500 499683304 TxAuBib 20210415120000.0 210415s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781944715601 20.00 1944715606 20.00 TxAuBib Morris, Joe Edd. Torched : Summer of '64. Texas : Black Rose Writing, 2020. Hardback, 168 pages. Joe Edd Morris is a lifelong Mississippian with a true gift of telling a good story. Torched finds Sam Ransom at his first pastoral appointment in Holmes County, Mississippi, in the summer of '64. At a civil rights rally, he is reunited with two friends from his childhood. His decision to join their efforts to rebuild a clack church torched by nightriders sets all three on a collisiohn course with the Klan and two grisly murders. The story is about interracial friendship and romance, the ultimate sacrifice, atonement and redemption. In honor of their time and lives, Joe Edd Morris retained many of the actual names. But this is a work of fiction and all other names and characters are fictional. 20210415. Mississippi Author. https://www.blackrosewriting.com/