Today, we have Attica Locke touring with TLC Book Tours for Black Water Rising.
FTC Disclosure: My copy of Black Water Rising was provided by TLC Book Tours for this blog tour. I am an IndieBound and Amazon affiliate, and any purchases made by clicking on the cover or the links provided may result in monetary compensation.
About the author: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. She is currently at work on her second book. Find her online at www.atticalocke.com.
Author: Attica Locke
ISBN-13: 9780061735868
Paperback: 427 pages
Publisher: HarperCollins, 2009
Purchase at IndieBound, Amazon
drey's thoughts:
What do you do when you've given up on your American Dream, because there's no way to get there now, not after you've been betrayed and have a record? Well... You make do. Make as good a life as you can. Especially when you love your wife, and she's expecting a new addition to the family.
And that's exactly what Jay Porter does. Eking out a living as an attorney who's barely making ends meet, he has "connections" arrange for a nice boat ride on the bayou to celebrate his wife's birthday. Midway into the celebration, they hear gunshots and rescue a woman who comes stumbling into the bayou. And Jay gets dragged kicking and screaming into a plot so convoluted, he doesn't believe it even when he finally realizes it.
Attica Locke's Black Water Rising was not an easy read--there were so many things going on that I almost took notes to keep track of it all. But it's wrapped up nicely in the end. Give it a try for some summer reading.
drey's rating: 3.5/5 Very Good
Challenges: 100+, Pub
