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“Black Water Rising [is] a strong and whip-smart debut from Attica Locke. Set in the author’s native Houston, it’s both a compelling mystery and a sharp, literate portrait of the social layers within that city’s black community.”
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Attica Locke is a NY Times best-selling author of five...
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WINNER OF THE HARPER LEE PRIZE FOR LEGAL FICTION. Fifteen...
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Sure, black people had earned the right to vote, to eat at a...
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They named her after the 1971 Attica Prison rebellion in upstate New York. She now lives in Los Angeles, California, with her husband and daughter. Actress Tembi Locke is her older sister. She is a member of the Writers Guild of America, West. Bibliography. Black Water Rising (2009), HarperCollins
Jun 21, 2009 · Attica Locke’s “Black Water Rising” uses Jay’s unease as a determinative character trait, one that will shape much of his behavior during Ms. Locke’s atmospheric, richly convoluted debut novel....
Jul 1, 2009 · Attica Locke’s first novel, “Black Water Rising,” revolves around the racial paranoia of Houston in the early 1980s.
Apr 20, 2010 · Black Water Rising: A Novel (Jay Porter Series, 1) Paperback – April 20, 2010. Attica Locke—a writer and producer of FOX’s Empire—delivers an engrossing, complex, and cinematic thriller about crime and racial justice.
