David Bradley, an associate professor of creative writing at the
University of Oregon, is the author of South Street and The Chaneysville Incident, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1982.
Cynthia Carr's Our Town seeks to uncover hidden truths about a 1930 lynching in small-town Indiana. But Carr fails to break the code of silence that many of the town's inhabitants, including her grandparents, took to the grave.


