Unmentionables
by David Greene
626 pages· 2010· ISBN 9781521706381
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Set in the American Civil War south, Unmentionables tells the intertwining stories of two couples, Jimmy and Cato, who are gay, black, and enslaved, and Dorothy and William, who are straight, white, and wealthy.
The turmoil preceding the war turns the lives of white planters and their slaves upside down. Abolitionist Dorothy falls in love with Confederate officer William. While William's half brother, Cato, who is a slave and half-white, is attracted to the fiercely anti-white field hand Jimmy.
Winner 2010 Book of the Year award for Gay fiction
The turmoil preceding the war turns the lives of white planters and their slaves upside down. Abolitionist Dorothy falls in love with Confederate officer William. While William's half brother, Cato, who is a slave and half-white, is attracted to the fiercely anti-white field hand Jimmy.
Winner 2010 Book of the Year award for Gay fiction
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