![]() ![]() Wilbanks is a disbarred attorney and a mentor to Jake. Roark is the daughter of famous defense lawyer Sheldon Roark and is a member of the ACLU, like Lucien. Ellen RoarkĪ third-year law student at Ole Miss who offers her services as a clerk, for free, in the wake of the trial. He has a young daughter himself, and he successfully defends Carl Lee. Jake BriganceĪ young, white lawyer who is friends with the Hailey family from his previous successful defense of Lester Hailey. ![]() As a Black man in a predominantly white town in Mississippi, Carl Lee's trial highlights the deep and persistent structural and institutional racism present in the American South. Enraged by the attack on his daughter, he kills her two rapists with an M-16 and is charged with murder. The novel tracks her long healing process, both on a physical and psychological level. The attack on Tonya is the inciting incident of the novel. Cobb and Willard rape her and attempt to murder her. She is kidnapped by Billy Ray Cobb and Willard on her way home from the grocery store. Tonya Hailey is the ten-year-old daughter of Carl Lee and Gwen Hailey. ![]()
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