On this episode of Arts & Letters, we talk with Arkansas Delta novelist and Ph.D student Sanderia Faye , whose novel Mourner's Bench published by The University of Arkansas Press in 2015, recounts the experiences of Sarah Jones from the summer of 1964 to the fall of 1965. Sarah is an eight year old who has to “navigate the growing tensions of the fictional small town of Maeby, Arkansas.” The early 1960's in Arkansas are seen through Sarah and her best friend, Malika’s eyes. They become