Heaven, My Home
Published on 12. September 2019
Book
Hardback
304 pages
978-1-78125-769-2 (ISBN)
Description
A Waterstones Thriller of the Month
Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize
A Sunday Times Book of the Year
'Political crime fiction of the highest order' - SUNDAY TIMES
'A propulsive and compelling novel' - GUARDIAN
Nine-year-old Levi King knew he should have left for home sooner; instead he found himself all alone, adrift on the vastness of Caddo Lake. A sudden noise - and all goes dark.
Ranger Darren Mathews is trying to emerge from another kind of darkness; his career and reputation lie in the hands of his mother, who's never had his best interests at heart. Now she holds the key to his freedom, and she's not above a little blackmail to press her advantage.
An unlikely possibility of rescue arrives in the form of a case down Highway 59, in a small lakeside town. With Texas already suffering a new wave of racial violence in the wake of the election of Donald Trump, a black man is a suspect in the possible murder of a missing white boy: the son of an Aryan Brotherhood captain. In deep country where the rule of law only goes so far, Darren has to battle centuries-old prejudices as he races to save not only Levi King, but himself.
'One of America's finest novelists' - DAILY MAIL
'A searingly exciting story' - SUNDAY EXPRESS
Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize
A Sunday Times Book of the Year
'Political crime fiction of the highest order' - SUNDAY TIMES
'A propulsive and compelling novel' - GUARDIAN
Nine-year-old Levi King knew he should have left for home sooner; instead he found himself all alone, adrift on the vastness of Caddo Lake. A sudden noise - and all goes dark.
Ranger Darren Mathews is trying to emerge from another kind of darkness; his career and reputation lie in the hands of his mother, who's never had his best interests at heart. Now she holds the key to his freedom, and she's not above a little blackmail to press her advantage.
An unlikely possibility of rescue arrives in the form of a case down Highway 59, in a small lakeside town. With Texas already suffering a new wave of racial violence in the wake of the election of Donald Trump, a black man is a suspect in the possible murder of a missing white boy: the son of an Aryan Brotherhood captain. In deep country where the rule of law only goes so far, Darren has to battle centuries-old prejudices as he races to save not only Levi King, but himself.
'One of America's finest novelists' - DAILY MAIL
'A searingly exciting story' - SUNDAY EXPRESS
Reviews / Votes
A propulsive and compelling novel, worthy of comparisons to Walter Mosley ... Locke's exploration of Matthews's predicament digs deep into the tension between "the impulse to police crimes against black life and to protect black life from police". It is buttressed by passages of gorgeous lyricism, with loving, elegiac evocations of Texas * Guardian * Attica Locke's magnificent new novel, Heaven, My Home, is set on the side of a lake where this small community struggles to survive, encroached on by angry white men who deal in drugs and stolen goods ... shines an unflinching light on an ugly side of contemporary America * Sunday Times * Bristling with rage, and yet beautifully written in its evocation of a Southern enclave still pining for its antebellum glories, Heaven, My Home is one of the most important crime novels of the year -- Declan Burke * RTE * a tightly plotted crime novel centring on the disappearance of a child, and a blistering look at race in Donald Trump's America * iPaper * One of America's finest crime novelists ... a beautifully wrought mystery and an incisive portrait of the American South in the age of Trump. -- John Williams * The Daily Mail * A superb thriller -- The Times The most celebrated African-American writer of crime fiction. Although her books are about the black experience in the US, they are universal in scope ... a consummate storyteller. * Financial Times * a magnificent crime novel * The Sunday Times * A powerful, angry, important book. Attica Locke is a major talent -- Mick Herron, author of SLOW HORSESMore details
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Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Profile Books Ltd
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Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 162 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
544 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78125-769-2 (9781781257692)
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Attica Locke is the author of Bluebird, Bluebird which won the CWA Steel Dagger and an Edgar Award; Pleasantville, which won the 2016 Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction and was longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction; Black Water Rising, which was nominated for an Edgar Award and shortlisted for the Orange Prize; and The Cutting Season, a national bestseller and winner of the Ernest Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. She worked on the adaptation of Celeste Ng's Little Fires Everywhere and Ava DuVernay's Netflix series about the Central Park Five, When They See Us. A native of Houston, Texas, Attica lives in Los Angeles, California, with her husband and daughter.