De’Shawn Charles Winslow’s 1976 book “Decent People” is set in North Carolina and explores the effects of a triple killing on a small town as well as a woman’s struggle to establish her fiancé’s innocence.
About the Author
De'Shawn Charles Winslow
De’Shawn Charles Winslow writes literary fiction about Black life, memory, and tightly connected communities in rural North Carolina. Decent People returns to the fictional town of West Mills in 1976, where Josephine Wright investigates the deaths of three siblings after local authorities show little urgency.…