The Orange Prize-nominated author Attica Locke on crime, class
and second novel syndrome
American
author Attica Locke picked up an Orange Prize nomination in 2009 for her
debut novel Black Water
Rising, a much-praised literary thriller set in 1980s Houston
against a backdrop of politics and corruption.
Locke’s second novel, The Cutting
Season, is a murder mystery which also tackles the
weighty themes of race, power and class. Although the story takes place in
2009, The Cutting Season
is steeped in the troubled past of the American Deep South. On her ability to
seamlessly meld a crime story with serious socio-political themes, she says,
over the phone from her home in LA: “I think you can get people to think
about things that are new, or uncomfortable, if you take them on a journey
that feels vaguely familiar.”
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1 comment:
I have a copy of this on it's way, looking forward to reading it.
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