The Last Suppers

Mandy Mikulencak

• Publisher: Kensington Books
• Year: 2017
• ISBN:
  9781496710055
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Historical Fiction
• Index: Literature

In this "raw and heartbreaking" novel set in 1950s Louisiana, a compassionate prison cook uncovers the lives of death row prisoners ( Historical Novel Review ).

Ginny Polk has come back to Louisiana's Greenmount State Penitentiary, the place where her father worked and died, to become a prison cook. She knows the harsh reality of life within those walls. That's why, among her duties, Ginny has taken on a special responsibility: preparing last meals for prisoners facing execution.

Ginny prepares whatever the men ask for, even meeting with their heartbroken relatives to get each recipe just right. The prison board frowns on the ritual, as does Roscoe Simms, Greenmount's Warden. Her daddy's best friend before he was killed by an inmate, Roscoe has always watched out for Ginny. But when Ginny stumbles upon information about the man executed for killing her father, it leads to a series of dark and painful revelations.

Truth, justice, mercy—none of these are as simple as Ginny once believed. And sometimes the most shocking crimes we commit are not inspired by anger or greed, but by love.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Table of Contents
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Chapter 1
• Chapter 2
• Chapter 3
• Chapter 4
• Chapter 5
• Chapter 6
• Chapter 7
• Chapter 8
• Chapter 9
• Chapter 10
• Chapter 11
• Chapter 12
• Chapter 13
• Chapter 14
• Chapter 15
• Chapter 16
• Chapter 17
• Chapter 18
• Chapter 19
• Chapter 20
• FEATURED RECIPES
• Acknowledgments
• A READING GROUP GUIDE
• DISCUSSION QUESTIONS