GodPretty In The Tobacco Field (2016) - Plot & Excerpts
Rainey never so much as whimpered. I shouldn’t have told knowing how Gunnar felt about the alcohol—my daddy. I couldn’t help feeling some of those lashes were meant for me. From the porch, Abby cradled her face and wept quietly. When Gunnar was through, he tossed his belt to the ground. “Rainey, get to the creek and clean yourself up. Don’t be going in the house like that.” Rainey pushed himself up and staggered away. Gunnar stepped onto the porch, put a hand on Abby’s arm, and said, “We’re not careful Rainey’s gonna end up same as his namesake. Our Rainey in his life’s got to honor Bethea, not end up like him—” “Don’t say that, Gunnar!” she gnashed. “My boy’s not gonna end up like Rainey Bethea—he’s gonna be a fine soldier.” I gasped. The colored boy, Rainey Bethea, had lived over on the banks of the Ohio River in Owensboro. He was the last one publicly hanged in Kentucky—even the whole country. During the Depression, Gunnar had gone to the spectacle, and for years now I’d overheard him talk about Bethea, comparing his own prison executions to this last hanging.
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