Magic Time: A Novel

Born and raised in Mississippi Carter Ransom came to New York as a young man and has risen to become a columnist with a major city newspaper. But when his life in New York falls apart and he heads back home to recover the still-live conflicts of his youth in the civil rights era rise up all around him again. A twenty-five-year-old murder case has just been reopened a church bombing that killed Carters first love. Carters father was the judge in the case and now theres evidence that the trial was flawed even fixed and the cases reopening threatens the foundation of Carters identity as well as his relationship to his family.. Moving between New York City and the New South of the early 1990s with flashbacks to Mississippis Freedom Summer of 1964 Magic Time is at once a powerful love story a courtroom drama and a complex portrait of the civil rights revolution.