By: Ernest J. Gaines
Grant Wiggins, a college-educated man who returns to his hometown to teach, forms an unlikely bond with a young Black man convicted of murder and sentenced to death. The condemned man is Jefferson, a poorly educated man/child whose only crimes are a dim intelligence, being in the wrong place at the wrong time, and being black in rural Louisiana in the late 1940s. To everyone, even his own defense attorney, he's an animal, too dumb to understand what is happening to him. But his godmother, Miss Emma, decides that Jefferson will die a man. Grant reluctantly begins visiting Jefferson, committing both men to the painful task of self-discovery. In the end, the two men forge a bond as they both come to understand the simple heroism of resisting-and defying-the expected.
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