This majestic, moving novel is an instant classic, a book that will be read, discussed and taught beyond the rest of our lives.—Chicago Tribune Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, A Lesson Before Dying is a deep and compassionate novel about a young man who returns to 1940s Cajun country to visit a black youth on death row for a crime he didn't commit. Together they come to understand the heroism of resisting. From the critically acclaimed author of A Gathering of Old Men and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. | A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines, Paperback | Indigo Chapters