![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In his will, he stipulated that Morgan has to do the job all by herself, and on a ridiculously tight deadline of just under two months. Once it has been spruced up, it will be displayed in a brand-new museum devoted to the work of Jesse Jameson Williams, a well-known Black artist who recently died at the age of 95. Morgan Christopher is plucked out of prison (where she was serving time after taking the fall for a crime committed by her boyfriend) by a pair of women who tell her that she’s been selected to come to Edenton, North Carolina, and work on an enormous mural that’s been sitting in storage since 1940. Big Lies in a Small Town-a distressingly generic title maybe it was supposed to remind people of Big Little Lies, which it resembles not at all-whips back and forth between 19, as a troubled young artist tries to figure out why she was chosen to restore an almost 80-year-old mural, and what became of the woman who originally created it. I’m a sucker for books in which someone in the present day is trying to solve a mystery from the past. ![]()
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