Black Water Rising (Harper Perennial)

Black Water Rising (Harper Perennial)Writing in the tradition of Dennis Lehane and Greg Iles, Attica Locke, a powerful new voice in American fiction, delivers a brilliant debut thriller that readers will not soon forget. Porter is hardly the lawyer he set out to be. His most promising client is a low rent call girl and he runs his fledgling law practice out of a dingy strip mall. But he's long since made peace with not living the American Dream and carefully tucked away his darkest sins:

these courageous men and women and the weapons they carried were crucial to the movement's success

But for Africans these were years of immense exhilaration

”—African Studies Review“The originality of Sankara’s ideas … along with his awareness of the social and economic realities of his country

Filled with Bridgforth and Perry-Mason's warmhearted wisdom

ordinary experiences of family

startling novel

their neighborhoods

Asinamali means 'We have no money' and is a phrase that was often sung in the struggles against apartheid

The tsunami of interest in genetic ancestry tracing from the African American community has been especially overwhelming

She loves rainbows so much that one day she imagines herself swinging on one

This revised and enlarged edition also analyzes the human consequences of the prevailing social vision of these disparities and the policies based on that vision--from educational disasters to widespread crime and violence

In The Confounding Island