Jonathan Grant: 2 books

After a murder at Bonaire Elementary, Richard and Anna Lee Gray seek a good school for their son Nick in a safe neighborhood. Their search leads them to Malliford, a ”school of excellence.” When redistricting sends scores of minority students to Malliford, iron-willed Principal Estelle Rutherford...

Brambleman Charlie Sherman, a down-and-out Atlanta writer, is chosen by a mysterious stranger to complete a dead professor’s unfinished work. What Charlie finds is an unwieldy manuscript about the mob-driven expulsion of more than 1,000 blacks from Forsyth County, Georgia in 1912. During...