About This Book
In 1928, Noah Thibedeaux leaves Natchez, a fugitive from justice running to Chicago to avoid the Klan and Mississippi’s Jim Crow hanging tree. Edward Stratford, a Natchez banker and Klan leader, accuses Noah of killing his own dad, Alex, a Cajun, and Rosa, his mother who passed for white. They owned the Missippi Catfish Restaurant. Edward Stratford forecloses on the restaurant and family property after Noah leaves, and Mississippi tries to extradite Noah from Chicago. Noah’s daughter Sherri persuades him over thirty years later to return to Natchez and reclaim the restaurant. They believe the 1964 Civil Rights laws and a “dying declaration letter†will reveal the murderer and prove Noah didn’t kill his parents, but Noah is tried and convicted of the old murder of his parents. An apparition, “The ENTITY,†arrives to cause a reckoning against the Stratford family, with extreme judgment on Billy Ray Stratford, son of Edward.
