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Black Water Rising

Black Water Rising

Author(s): Attica Locke

Location(s): Houston

Genre(s): Thriller

Era(s): 1980s

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Shortlisted for the Orange Prize 2010, and critically acclaimed in US and UK. The novel is set in 1980’s Houston where Jay (whos is a lawyer) and his wife Bernadine are on a boat on the bayou celebrating her birthday, when they hear gunshots and they see a woman plunge into the water. Jay manages to rescue her and drops her off at the local police station.
This is a mutlistrand novel that interweaves several characters, the Civil Rights Movements and the vagaries of big corporation plotting

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This book is a good background to events (not exclusively) in Texas in the 1980s ie Civil Rights,Southern politics and the Oil industry

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