“Attica Locke is a vivid storyteller.Without pretence, she provides an engaging story about one man’s enduring struggle for justice and equality. Like Dennis Lehane, she skillfully deploys the conventions of the thriller while also presenting biting social commentary, a sure sense of place, and soulful characters.” - Booklist (starred review) “First-novelist Locke presents a searing portrait of a man struggling to reconcile the bitterness of his life experiences with the idealism of his convictions. “ Black Water Rising reads like a hard-boiled thriller, but the real trick resides in Locke’s ability to personalize an overlooked part of American history and show how far-reaching, how entrenched, it is in today’s social, political, and cultural fabric.” - San Francisco Bay Guardian “Attica Locke’s first novel, Black Water Rising, which Janet Maslin called ‘subtle and compelling’ in The New York Times, is an even better book than its author had in mind.The book cleverly replaces the kind of cold-war paranoia that used to animate thrillers with racial paranoia instead.” - New York Times
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