Emmy award-winning Jeffrey Blount’s third novel, The Emancipation of Evan Walls, is a harrowing glimpse at the American South during the Civil Rights Movement of the late 1960s, told through the eyes of a young black child struggling to overcome the obstacles in the way of his dream to forge a life for himself. The novel is a reflection on Evan’s painful experience being a sharp, intelligent child with courageous aspirations, who finds himself caught “in a crossfire of hate”