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The sacrifice : a novel / Joyce Carol Oates.

by Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-

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HarperLuxe, c2015.

Girls, Black -- Fiction.

Teenage girls -- Crimes against -- Fiction.

Race relations -- Fiction.

Hate crimes -- Fiction.

New Jersey -- Fiction.

9780062391698 (large print : softcover)

1st HarperLuxe ed.

433 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.

When a fourteen-year-old girl is the alleged victim of a terrible act of racial violence, the incident shocks and galvanizes her community, exacerbating the racial tension that has been simmering in this New Jersey town for decades. In this magisterial work of fiction, Joyce Carol Oates explores the uneasy fault lines in a racially troubled society. In such a tense, charged atmosphere, Oates reveals that there must always be a sacrifice--of innocence, truth, trust, and, ultimately, of lives. Unfolding in a succession of multiracial voices, in a community transfixed by this alleged crime and the spectacle unfolding around it, this novel exposes what--and who--the "sacrifice" actually is, and what consequences these kinds of events hold for us all. Working at the height of her powers, Oates offers a sympathetic portrait of the young girl and her mother, and challenges our expectations and beliefs about our society, our biases, and ourselves. As the chorus of its voices--from the police to the media to the victim and her family--reaches a crescendo, The Sacrifice offers a shocking new understanding of power and oppression, innocence and guilt, truth and sensationalism, justice and retribution.

Social commentary fiction.

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