Witness (Karen Hesse novel)
- Witness (Karen Hesse novel)
Witness is a novel written by Karen Hesse in 2001, concentrating on racism in a rural Vermont town in 1924. Written in verse, voices include those of Leanora Sutter, a 12-year-old African American girl; Esther Hirsh, a 6-year-old Jewish immigrant; Sara Chickering, a quiet spinster farmer; Iris Weaver, a young restaurant owner, bootlegger and rum runner; Reynard Alexander, town newspaper editor; Fitzgerald Flitt, town doctor; and Percelle Johnson, town constable -- among others, some of whom are moved to join the newly-arrived Ku Klux Klan including: preacher Johnny Reeves, teenager Merlin Van Tornhout and shopkeeper Harvey Pettibone - none find easy the way of their regretful decisions.
In "Witness", Hesse continues the distinctive poetic style she pioneered in "Out of the Dust", a previously-written novel.
External links
* [http://us.macmillan.com/author/karenhesse Karen Hesse's page on Macmillan.com]
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