Bluebird, Bluebird: A Novel by Attica Locke. 2017, Mulholland Books (Little, Brown, and Company). Adult fiction.While Attica Locke doesn't live in Texas anymore, her heart must still be there! This novel about African American Texas Ranger Darren Mathews shows that she knows her setting and characters inside and out. Darren lives in Houston and has a wife, but when the deaths of a black man from Chicago and a white woman from the small town of Lark in East Texas call him back to his roots, he gets into a hornet's nest of racial unrest and old loyalties. The dead lawyer's wife comes south to try to find out what happened. The small local eating establishment is owned by Geneva whose own husband was killed a long time ago. It's across the highway from the house of a man who seems to have run local businesses and politics for generations. Darren's own weakness for liquor has put his own job in question and he is out to prove to himself that he can be the man he has always thought he could be. Combine all these elements and readers will find the crimes, tensions, and intrigues irresistibly in the hands of a veteran writer.
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