Blogs in January 1970

The Pink Hotel 1st January 1970

A seventeen-year-old London girl flies to Los Angeles for the funeral of her mother Lily, from whom she had been separated in her childhood. After stealing a suitcase of letters, clothes and photographs from her mum’s bedroom at the...

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Salvage the Bones 1st January 1970

A hurricane is building over the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the coastal town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, and Esch’s father is growing concerned. He’s a hard drinker, largely absent, and it isn’t often he worries about the family. Esch...

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Miami Blues 1st January 1970

Ex-con Freddy ‘Junior’ Frenger lands in Miami with three stolen wallets and plans for a new life of crime, and leaves the airport with a snatched suitcase and the corpse of a Hare Krishna behind him. Homicide detective Hoke...

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Southern Cross The Dog 1st January 1970

When the Great Flood of 1927 devastates Mississippi, eight-year-old Robert Chatham loses everything. Robert’s adventures in the brooding swamplands – from hard labour to imprisonment to thwarted love – are full of courage, danger and heartbreak. This is story...

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Ghana Must Go 1st January 1970

With mesmerizing craftsmanship and massive imagination takes the reader on an unforgettable journey across continents and most importantly deeply into the lives of the people whom she writes about. She de-“exoticizes” whole populations and demographics and brings...

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