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BLACK WATER RISING by Attica Locke

I offer the above quote, a pithy economic assessment of race, not because I find it particularly compelling, though I think it is; nor because it summarizes the plot of this novel; it does not. Rather, it’s there because this novel reads surprisingly like a well-argued survey of American race relations in the 1980s–that it also happens to be a page-turning noir thriller is all the better.

September 4, 2009 В· Judi Clark В· Comments Closed
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