In a house full of secrets, two babies - one light-skinned, the other dark - are born to Elma, a white sharecropper's daughter. Accused of her rape, field hand Genus is lynched and dragged down the Twelve-Mile Straight. Combining the intimacy of a family drama with the grandeur of an American epic, The Twelve-Mile Straight is tender and savage, heart-breaking and hopeful, and deeply human.
In a house full of secrets, two babies - one light-skinned, the other dark - are born to Elma, a white sharecropper's daughter. Accused of her rape, f...
