Melissa Clark has been reaching millions of readers through her New York Times column "A Good Appetite" since 2007
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The Evening Road honeymoon Melissa Clark has been reachingTwo women, two secrets: one desperate and extraordinary day. In the high heat of an Indiana summer, news spreads fast. When Marvel, the local county seat, plans to lynch three young black men, word travels faster. It is August, 1930, the height of the Jim Crow era, and the prospect of the spectacle sends shockwaves rumbling through farm country as far as a day's wagon ride away. Ottie Lee Henshaw, a fiery small town beauty, sets out with her lecherous