Attica Locke
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- 1974
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- female
- Nationaliteit
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- Houston, Texas, USA
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- Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Northwestern University
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- screenwriter
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- Attica Locke is a writer whose first novel, Black Water Rising, was nominated for a 2010 Edgar Award, a 2010 NAACP Image Award, as well as a Los Angeles Times Book Prize and was longlisted for an Orange Prize in the UK. Attica is also a screenwriter who has written movie and television scripts for Paramount, Warner Bros, Disney, Twentieth Century Fox, Jerry Bruckheimer Films, HBO, Dreamworks and Silver Pictures. She was also a fellow at the Sundance Institute’s Feature Filmmakers Lab and is a graduate of Northwestern University. A native of Houston, Texas, Attica lives in Los Angeles, California, with her husband and daughter.
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"Black Water Rising" by Attica Locke in Orange January/July (augustus 2011)
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Heaven, my home door Attica Locke
another great and provocative book . A 9 year old racist in the making kidnapped, native americans, former slaves, the aryan brotherhood and the literal swamp make for a complex moral dilemma with interesting twists and turns
3.75 stars
Darren is a black man and a Texas Ranger. Though he is on suspension, he gets a tip that there have been two murders one county over – a black man and a white woman. Bodies found in the river a few days apart. Initially, he heads over just to see what things are looking like. Turns out there is an active chapter of the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas (a modern-day KKK) in this small town where there hasn’t been even one murder in decades. When he does get the go ahead from his Ranger supervisor to help investigate, the local sheriff isn’t thrilled.
I mostly liked this, but some of the flashbacks to previous happenings didn’t completely hold my interest. I liked Darren, but didn’t like some of the other characters much. I feel like dark and gritty are good words to describe this one. I do plan to continue with book 2 at some point.… (meer)
Darren is a black man and a Texas Ranger. Though he is on suspension, he gets a tip that there have been two murders one county over – a black man and a white woman. Bodies found in the river a few days apart. Initially, he heads over just to see what things are looking like. Turns out there is an active chapter of the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas (a modern-day KKK) in this small town where there hasn’t been even one murder in decades. When he does get the go ahead from his Ranger supervisor to help investigate, the local sheriff isn’t thrilled.
I mostly liked this, but some of the flashbacks to previous happenings didn’t completely hold my interest. I liked Darren, but didn’t like some of the other characters much. I feel like dark and gritty are good words to describe this one. I do plan to continue with book 2 at some point.… (meer)
I might have enjoyed it more reading it on the page? I enjoyed her explication of the protagonist's identity as a Black Texas and member of law enforcement more than the procedural. The Randi character was not as compelling as she should have been, and the Lisa character also didn't have much to offer. I also wasn't sure what to make of the flashbacks from other characters' pov: were these to be seen as fact/reliable? I'd like to read the next one to see where she takes the character because his journey was the most interesting part.… (meer)
There were parts of this book I liked a lot. The problem I had was there were several things in the plot that threw me completely out of the story. Several instances of characters doing really unintelligent things that made the story feel a little worn and cliched. I did love the setting and the tension caused by racism was ratcheted up to a heart pumping read. Glad I read it but loved the first half and was a little less than excited about the 2nd half.
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