Beetlecreek A Novel Human Figure Mingoo Kang

Mingoo Kang

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<b><i>NEW YORK TIMES </i>BESTSELLER </b>• <b>The classic chronicle of a “terribly misguided and terribly funny” (<i>The Washington Post</i>) hike of the Appalachian Trail

Beetlecreek A Novel Human Figure Mingoo KangBy: William Demby Published by Random House, 2026 01 13 A rediscovered classic of Black American literature first published in 1950, about an unlikely friendship in a West Virginia town After several years of silence and seclusion in Beetlecreek's black quarter, a retired carnival worker named Bill Trapp befriends Johnny Johnson, a Pittsburgh teenager living with relatives in Beetlecreek. Bill is white. Johnny is black. Both are searching for