![]() ![]() He went on trial for inciting a riot, then went on to be a small-town defense attorney. “It’s no secret to anyone who knows my family that Jay is a sketch of my dad,” Locke said in a phone call from Los Angeles, where she lives with her husband (a public defender) and their two children. Years before he went on trial for his rabble-rousing ways. Its hero, Jay Porter, is an African American lawyer with an office in a cheap strip mall, a client list of lowlifes, and a history as a student radical. ![]() Set in Houston in the early 1980s, Black Water mixes politics and murder, corruption and labor unrest, oil and industry. at the Plaza Branch, 4801 Main St.Īdmission is free. Locke discusses and reads from Black Water Rising on Wednesday, March 21, at 6:30 p.m. “A near-perfect balance of trenchant social commentary, rich characterizations and action-oriented plot,” raves the Los Angeles Times. Locke’s Black Water Rising was a finalist for a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, a nominee for an Edgar Award (best first mystery), and won Britain’s Orange Prize for Fiction. A novel about something with which she was intimately familiar.Īnd in her first attempt, she has a winner. ![]() That admonition, the first bit of friendly advice every young writer receives, has paid off for Attica Locke.Īfter several years of struggling to get her screenplays produced, Locke decided it was time to go solo and produce something that didn’t require lots of people and money to make a reality. ![]()
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