One morning, while making her daily rounds, Caren discovers a young woman’s body buried on the property, and her world is thrust into chaos. In the novel, it is the early years of Barack Obama’s administration, and Caren, a young Black mother, is the manager of Belle Vie, a rural Louisiana sugarcane plantation turned historic tourist attraction, where her ancestors were once enslaved. Locke looks at law enforcement and racism through the themes of history, family, and politics while telling the gripping tale of a woman killed too young and a justice system that may fail her. Locke - a television screenwriter best known for Empire - places the reader so completely in the South that you can almost feel the suffocating humidity and see the dappled light through hanging Spanish moss. It is a fast-paced murder mystery that zooms in on the intersection and continued entanglement of history and modernity in the American South. The Cutting Season by Attica Locke is a fresh take on Southern Gothic literature.
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