The Confessions of Matthew Strong, A Novel

A wildly original, incendiary story about race, redemption, the dangerous imbalances that continue to destabilize society, and speaking out for whats right.One could argue the story begins the night Allegra Douglass is awarded Distinguished Chair in Philosophy at her top-tier university in New Yorkthe same night her grandmother diesor before that: the day Allie left Birmingham and never looked back. Or even before that: the day her mother disappeared. But for our purposes Allies story begins at the end, when she is finally ready to tell her version of what happened with a white supremacist named Matthew Strong.From the beginning, Allie had the clues: in a spate of possibly connected disappearances of other young Black women; in a series of recently restored plantation homes; in letters outlining an uprising; in maps of slave trade routes and old estates; in hidden caves and buried tunnels;...