They Dragged Them through the Streets: A Novel

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they dragged them through the streets FC2 TUSCALOOSA hilary plum they dragged them through the streets Copyright © 2013 by Hilary Plum The University of Alabama Press Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0380 All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America FC2 is an imprint of The University of Alabama Press Book Design: Illinois State University’s English Department’s Publications Unit; Director: Tara Reeser; Assistant Director: Steve Halle; Production Assistant: Alyssa Bralower Cover Design: Lou Robinson Cover Photograph: i/Stock Typeface: Garamond ∞ The paper on which this book is printed meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48–1984 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Plum, Hilary, 1981They Dragged Them Through the Streets / Hilary Plum. pages cm ISBN 978-1-57366-172-0 (pbk. : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-1-57366-840-8 (ebook) (print) 1. Social change—Fiction. 2. Suffering—Fiction. I. Title. PS3616.L86T48 2013 813’.6—dc23 2012040001 To my brother Throwing down the pieces of silver in the temple, he departed; and he went and hanged himself. But the chief priests, taking the pieces of silver, said, “It is not lawful to put them into the treasury, since they are blood money.” After conferring together, they used them to buy the potter’s field as a place to bury foreigners. —Matthew 27:5–7 they dragged them through the streets ...