6/20/2023 0 Comments The cutting season book![]() ![]() ![]() As investigation of the murder proceeds, Caren is confronted with people from her own past as well as echoes from her ancestors’ lives. She and her nine-year-old daughter live on the plantation, and when a dead body is found there, she begins to fear for their safety. For her new book, she turns to the sugar-growing country just south of Baton Rouge and to a restored plantation steeped in gracious living and almost-forgotten crime.Ĭaren is an African American single mother, managing the plantation where her family once worked as slaves and where she grew up as the daughter of plantation owner’s cook. She displayed this in her excellent first mystery, Black Water Rising, set in Houston. Harper Perennial (2013), Edition: Reprint, Paperback, 384 pages.Ī suspense-filled mystery, a tender account of mother-daughter relations, and a “meditation” on how we deal with our personal and societal past-by an African American woman from the South.Īttica Locke is an exceptional writer rooted in her own history. ![]()
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