The Cutting Season: A Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.50 (531 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0061802069 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-12-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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Despite the beauty of the house and grounds, Caren still feels uneasy whenever she visits the former slave quarters, a stark reminder of the antebellum plantation’s notorious past. Now the single mother to a nine-year-old daughter, she manages the showplace, which has long been owned by the prosperous Clancy family and is a popular site for weddings and banquets. When a cane worker is found with her throat slit, Caren is drawn into the investigation as the police target one of her employees as the murderer. Soon, though, Caren learns some rather unsavory information about the Clancy family and their nefarious dealings in both the past and the present. This is a nuanced look at the South’s tragic past and one strong woman’s stand against ingrained cultural and economic oppression. From Booklist In this atmospheric follow-up to Black Water Rising (2009), Locke once again confronts matters of race and conscience. --Joanne Wilkinson . Some
Three Stars OK. Big yawn. I downloaded the book based on a great interview I heard on NPR, but I am so disappointed. This could have been SUCH a great novel. All the elements were there; location, theme, characters. But the author just couldn't pull it together and the writing is s. D. White said Great writing, okay story. I'd read another book by Locke, but I wasn't in love with the story. Her writing saved it. I finished it because I wanted to know what happened, not because I couldn't put it down.
Attica Locke is a dazzling writer with a conscience.”—Dolen Perkins-Valdez, New York Times bestselling author of WenchAfter her breathtaking debut novel, Black Water Rising, won acclaim from major publications and respected crime fiction masters like James Ellroy and George Pelecanos, Locke returns with The Cutting Season, a second novel easily as gripping and powerful as her first—a heart-pounding thriller that interweaves two murder mysteries, one on Belle Vie, a historic landmark in the middle of Lousiana’s Sugar Cane country, and one involving a slave gone missing more than one hundred years earlier. Black Water Rising was nominated for a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, an Edgar® Award, and an NAACP Image Award, and was short-listed for the Orange Prize in the U.K.. From Attica Locke, a writer and producer of FOX’s E