Vengeance

In Guggenheim Fellow and John Updike Award winner Zachary Lazar's powerful new novel, Vengeance, a journalist befriends an inmate at Louisiana's Angola prison. As he attempts to unravel the truth behind the man's supposed crime, he is also confronted with his own past, and re-examines American notions of guilt and penance, racial bias, and the inherent perversity of punitive justice.