![]() ![]() One, Axel Hathorne, is a popular former police chief and a scion of the de-facto royal family of the titular middle-class black suburb. Similarly, Pleasantville begins with Alicia Nowell, a young African-American woman in Houston, vanishing on the eve of the city’s 1996 mayoral election. Her last novel, 2013’s The Cutting Season, was ostensibly about the body of a migrant worker turning up on a historic plantation’s grounds, but it was really about far more: motherhood, immigration, and white America’s strange compulsion to romanticize the antebellum South. Like the best thriller writers - your Dennis Lehanes, Tana Frenches, or Gillian Flynns - Locke’s books have central mysteries, but that’s never what they’re really about. Attica Locke’s Pleasantville is that novel. A common selling point for the sorely missed HBO series “The Wire” is that it’s the closest television has ever come to feeling like a novel. ![]()
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