The author’s second novel explores some of the worst aspects of small-town life (and death) in the segregated South of 1976.
“Decent People,” the second novel from De’Shawn Charles Winslow, is set in 1976 and features the murder of three siblings in the segregated South. While the novel features few characters who meet the title’s standards, Jo Wright, from whose perspective we see the early action, is one. But she’s an outsider, having only recently returned to her childhood hometown of West Mills, North Carolina.
“In West Mills” was already out when I came up with this idea. I had a couple of short stories I had written and wanted to incorporate them into another book but I was short on characters – those stories weren’t going to be enough for a novel, so I thought maybe I could use Eunice, Breezy and La’Roy because a lot of readers really enjoyed being introduced to him and his queerness in “In West Mills,” which was just slightly suggested there.
The editor who acquired the book pitched that idea after reading an early draft but I never wanted La’Roy to have a POV in the book. At some point, I will do a book from the queer teen or queer young adult point of view but this is not it. I wanted this to be about how the adults deal with a queer child.
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