Master of the Delta by Cook, Thomas H.

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I was badly shaped by my good fortune, and thus failed to see the darkness and the things that darkness hides. In the Mississippi Delta of 1954, the aristocratic son of a famed Delta family, Jack Branch has returned to his ancestral home, intent on an act of noblesse oblige. He decides to teach at the local high school, and designs a course called 'On Evil', one that will prove a sure-fire attraction to his decidedly unsophisticated students. Eddie Miller is one of those students. But he is also the son of the 'Coed Killer', a boy already well versed in the vocabulary of evil. When Branch urges Eddie to write a paper on his own father, the best of intentions go horribly awry. Master of the Delta explores the delicate balance between what we hope for and what we dread, the evil that may lie at the heart of goodness, and whose nature can only be learned in the classroom of life itself.