Nonfiction : Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction Description

Finalist for the 1991 national book award and a Ny times preponderant book, praying for sheetrock is the story of mcintosh county, a little, isolated, and lovely place on the flowery seaboard of georgia–and a county where, in the 1970s, the white sheriff still wielded every the vigor, controlling all thoughts and every person. Somehow the sweeping replacements of the civil justs movement managed to bypass mcintosh entirely. It took one uneducated, unemployed black man, thurnell alston, to challenge the sheri …