The Same Country

By Carole Burns,

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The Same Country is a powerful and thought-provoking story about family, friendship and the risks we take to unravel the truth.

Twenty years ago, Joe was shot dead in the bedroom of his white girlfriend. It was deemed an accident, but now his friend Cassie – a journalist – is…

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The Same Country is a gripping story from beginning to end, through the eyes of so many vivid characters, at one of the most explosive times in America for race relations.

The main character Cassie is a white journalist returning home to see the Black Lives Movement play out before her very eyes. A mystery dictates the effects of it on her and all around her and transports back and forth to a past not different but silenced.

Carole Burns makes you feel as if these people from an American cross-section really know each other. Or maybe I, being from…

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