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A Free State
Written by Tom Piazza
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The author of City of Refuge returns with a startling and powerful novel of race, violence, and identity set in the year 1855 on the eve of the Civil War.
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Tom Piazza
Tom Piazza is the author of the novels City of Refuge and My Cold War, the post-Katrina manifesto Why New Orleans Matters, the essay collection Devil Sent the Rain, and many other works. He was a principal writer for the HBO drama series Treme and the winner of a Grammy Award for his album notes to Martin Scorsese Presents: The Blues: A Musical Journey. He lives in New Orleans.
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