Jackson Purchase Historical Society and Graves County Public Library Presents Bernadette Rule's The Arithmetic of Color: A Community Book Discussion

The Jackson Purchase Historical Society and Graves County Public Library will host author Bernadette Rule.  She will be discussing her newest book The Arithmetic of Color, the biography of Tom Johnson, a man of mixed race who lived from 1871 to 1929. Based on a true story meticulously researched, it is written as a novel because of its dramatic character.  A tri-racial man of spirit and talent, Johnson knew poverty, middle class success, and the near promise of extreme wealth; he also knew redemption, returning to the woman he loved after serving seventeen years of a life sentence in Leavenworth Prison. There will be books available for purchase.