By Jacqueline Allen Trimble
The name is taken from a poem within the e-book which considers the kinder, gentler exploits of Sheriff Andy and Deputy Barney in the course of a time whilst Southern legislations enforcement was once neither universally type or mild. Says Trimble, “Barney had one bullet/and no use for a rope./The merely burning he did used to be for his Thelma Lou.”
On her poetic trip, which takes us from the private to the political, Trimble probes our racial divide. She is by way of turns compassionate and fierce, slicing at our hypocrisy with the knife of her phrases and prepared us towards our larger universal humanity.
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