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Winner of the 2018 Edgar Award for Best NovelA New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book PrizeA Washington Post 10 Best Thrillers and Mysteries of 2017A Kirkus Best Mysteries and Thrillers of 2017A Financial Times Best Book of the YearBest book of the year from Vulture, The Strand Magazine, Southern Living, Bolo Books, Publisher's Weekly, Book Riot, The Guardian, Lit Hub, The Boston Globe, Dallas News, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Minnesota Public Radio, Texas Monthly, The Daily Beast, and the South Florida Sun Sentinel"A quick course in plotting and nimble characterizations rooted in a vividly evoked setting"―Nicole Lamy, New York Times Book Review"An emotionally dense and intricately detailed thriller, roiling with conflicting emotions steeped in this nation's troubled past and present. . . . A rich sense of place and relentless feeling of dread permeate Attica Locke's heartbreakingly resonant new novel about race and justice in America. . . . Bluebird, Bluebird is no simple morality tale. Far from it. It rises above "left and right" and "black and white" and follows the threads that inevitably bind us together, even as we rip them apart."―James Endrst, USA Today"Gripping, suspenseful and gut-wrenching . . . I've never bought the notion of the Great American Novel. I think when literary historians look back, they'll realize this time had many, but if Attica Locke's Bluebird Bluebird isn't on the list, I'm coming back to haunt them. . . . This is a layered portrait of a black man confronting his own racial ambivalence and ambition told with a pointed and poignant bluesy lyricism. . . . Locke's novel is America 'telling on itself.' Listen up."―Carole Barrowman, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel"Attica Locke's terrific Bluebird, Bluebird (Mulholland) simmers with racial tensions . . . a story told with Locke's crystal-clear vision and pleasurably elemental prose."―Seattle Times"In Bluebird, Bluebird Attica Locke had both mastered the thriller and exceeded it. Ranger Darren Mathews is tough, honor-bound, and profoundly alive in corrupt world. I loved everything about this book."―Ann Patchett"Few contemporary writers have portrayed black Southern life with as much wit and heart-pounding drama as Attica Locke. . . . A dazzling work of rural noir that throws into question whether justice can be equally served on both sides of the race line."―Amy Brady, Los Angeles Times"Locke pens a poignant love letter to the lazy red-dirt roads and Piney Woods that serve as a backdrop to a noir thriller as murky as the bayous and bloodlines that thread through the region. . . . Locke shows off her chops as a superb storyteller. . . . She is adept at crafting characters who don't easily fit the archetypes of good and evil, but exist in the thick grayness of humanness, the knotty demands of loyalties and the baseness of survival. Locke holds up the mirror of the racial debate in America and shows us how the light bends and fractures what is right, wrong and what simply is the way it is--but perhaps not as it should be."―Jaundréa Clay, Houston Chronicle"Powerful . . . Locke is a master of plot who's honed her craft. . . . The deepest pleasures to be found in Bluebird, Bluebird, though, are in her renderings of those who've loved and lost but still want to believe in the world's benevolence."―Leigh Haber, O., The Oprah Magazine"I've never bought the notion of the Great American Novel. I think when literary historians look back, they'll realize this time had many, but if Attica Locke's"Bluebird Bluebird" (Mulholland) isn't on the list, I'm coming back to haunt them."―Carole E. Barrowman, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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About the Author
Attica Locke is the author of Pleasantville, which won the 2016 Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction and was long-listed for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction; Black Water Rising, which was nominated for an Edgar Award; and The Cutting Season, a national bestseller and winner of the Ernest Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. She was a writer and producer on the Fox drama Empire. A native of Houston, Texas, Attica lives in Los Angeles, California, with her husband and daughter.
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Product details
Series: A Highway 59 Mystery (Book 1)
Hardcover: 320 pages
Publisher: Mulholland Books; 1 edition (September 12, 2017)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0316363294
ISBN-13: 978-0316363297
Product Dimensions:
6.4 x 1.1 x 9.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.0 out of 5 stars
213 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#58,292 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
Harlan Coben recommended this book on the Today Show as a Christmas gift. I bought it for myself. The story of a black Texas Ranger sent to look into the murders of a black man and a white woman in two consecutive days was not exactly cheery but it was a very good book! Darren is in the process of trying to sort out some of his own personal and professional problems as he looks into the murders in Lark , Texas. He meets the widow of the black man and promises that he will find his killer. He suspects the husband of the white woman for a while but believes his story that while he laid some hurt on the man-he was still alive when he walked away from him. Page -turner!
Several interlacing plots involving crime, love and hate, and racial prejudice in Texas. Hero is a black Texas ranger who has drinking problems, and wants to keep the world safe for poor black people in forgotten rural areas, from which he also came. Villains include Aryan Brotherhood gangsters. Nice beginning, good plot with twisrs and turns, and life in a town of 200 people, including a gutsy 70 yr old black owner of a roadside cafe. Many secondary characters play good roles.
It took me a while to get into this story about a black Texas Ranger who’s suspended for going to the aid of an acquaintance who was being harassed by a white supremacist who was on his land. That supremacist is found dead two days later. Darren is already struggling with his marriage and drinking too much in his loneliness and frustration.Despite being suspended, when he hears about a black man found dead under suspicious circumstances in a town of 200 people that’s well known for having a high tolerance for members of the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas, he can’t help but nose around, especially when a white girl is found dead in the same bayou just two days later. ABT is even worse than the KKK because it deals drugs like meth among its many criminal ties.This is when the story really picks up. I was taking notes and I still had a hard time figuring out who was related to whom and how, but I got the gist of it. Once I got into it, I devoured the book in a day.I enjoyed this mystery, which doesn’t shy away from the complexities of race and family.
Two bodies have turned up in quick succession in a small town in hardscrabble East Texas. The sheriff is inclined to treat them as unconnected. But not so Darren Matthews, a Texas Ranger who has come to town at the urging of a friend in the FBI who suspects larger forces at work there. An African-American, Darren fears a connection with the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas (ABT), a violent racist gang enriched by drug smuggling. However, Darren is on suspension from the Texas Rangers because he is suspected of involvement in the death of a known member of the ABT. Nonetheless, without authorization, he sets out to investigate the two deaths. Once in town, he encounters resistance from the sheriff and worrisome rumblings from the local people. No one, not the African-Americans who congregate at Geneva's cafe nor the white men who hang out in a nearby bar, is willing to help Darren at first. He's an outsider. He doesn't belong.This is the setup in Bluebird, Bluebird, the new novel from the widely acclaimed writer Attica Locke. Her title comes from a blues song of the same name sung by John Lee Hooker. ("Bluebird, bluebird, take this letter down South for me.") Music, especially the blues, plays a large role in the background of this gripping murder mystery.Bluebird, Bluebird highlights the uneasy relationships between black and white in a Texas town still in the vise of history. "Forty-some years after the death of Jim Crow, not much had changed," writes Locke. Given the setup, it would be natural to expect the two deaths (which are in fact murders) to be racially motivated. Race is a central factor—but in ways that are too complicated to imagine as the story begins to unfold.Attica Locke was born in Houston. She makes her home in the Los Angeles area, where she has accumulated numerous credits as a screenwriter. Bluebird, Bluebird is her third novel.
This is a well written novel and the only reason I give it 4 stars is that the hero - a black Texas Ranger - is an alcoholic who is stupid enough to buy liquor while in uniform and drinks on the job. This is a disconnect from the rest of the novel. Locke should know that the early first blacks in once segregated circumstances were careful lest their white bosses would find any excuse to fire them. Otherwise, the plot and characters feel real. It was often the case that the first blacks were overqualified for the job, having more education than their colleagues and their bosses. That is the case here. Locke skillfully relates the small towns of the south where residents are enmeshed with each other across race and where everything is civil as long as everyone knows their place. It is curious that the redneck bad guys belong to the Aryan brotherhood rather than the Klan. It is also farfetched that a black man would go into the local redneck bar for a drink. But thats only a small quibble. I look forward to the sequel.
This book just rings true. It is beautifully written and accurately illustrates a part of life that desperately needs examining. I would highly recommend if you are interested in history, psychology, or just plain humanity. It is also just rousingly satisfying! P.S. I'm a southeast Texas native.
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