num_pages: 432
description: The son of a moonshiner and the grandson of a slave, a brilliant but bitter Black historian wades through the dark secrets of his heritage to reconstruct and, finally, to accept his family's tragic history
language: English
title: The Chaneysville Incident: A Novel
titlecomplete: The Chaneysville Incident: A Novel
genres: African American, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction, Classics, Race, Historical, Fiction, Literature, Mystery, American
ratings_count: 1160
places: The United States of America
awards: awardedAt: 378720000000
name: PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, awardedAt: 410256000000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction (Paperback)
publisher: Harper & Row