She is adept at crafting characters who don't easily fit the archetypes of good and evil, but exist in the thick grayness of humanness, the knotty demands of loyalties and the baseness of survival. Locke shows off her chops as a superb storyteller. "Locke pens a poignant love letter to the lazy red-dirt roads and Piney Woods that serve as a backdrop to a noir thriller as murky as the bayous and bloodlines that thread through the region. A dazzling work of rural noir that throws into question whether justice can be equally served on both sides of the race line."- Amy Brady, Los Angeles Times "Few contemporary writers have portrayed black Southern life with as much wit and heart-pounding drama as Attica Locke. I loved everything about this book."- Ann Patchett Ranger Darren Mathews is tough, honor-bound, and profoundly alive in corrupt world. "In Bluebird, Bluebird Attica Locke had both mastered the thriller and exceeded it. a story told with Locke's crystal-clear vision and pleasurably elemental prose."- Seattle Times "Attica Locke's terrific Bluebird, Bluebird (Mulholland) simmers with racial tensions. Locke's novel is America 'telling on itself.' Listen up."- Carole Barrowman, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel This is a layered portrait of a black man confronting his own racial ambivalence and ambition told with a pointed and poignant bluesy lyricism. I think when literary historians look back, they'll realize this time had many, but if Attica Locke's Bluebird Bluebird isn't on the list, I'm coming back to haunt them. I've never bought the notion of the Great American Novel. "Gripping, suspenseful and gut-wrenching. It rises above "left and right" and "black and white" and follows the threads that inevitably bind us together, even as we rip them apart."- James Endrst, USA Today Bluebird, Bluebird is no simple morality tale. A rich sense of place and relentless feeling of dread permeate Attica Locke's heartbreakingly resonant new novel about race and justice in America. "An emotionally dense and intricately detailed thriller, roiling with conflicting emotions steeped in this nation's troubled past and present. "A quick course in plotting and nimble characterizations rooted in a vividly evoked setting"- Nicole Lamy, New York Times Book Review Best book of the year from Vulture, The Strand Magazine, Southern Living, Bolo Books, Publisher's Weekly, Book Riot, The Guardian, Lit Hub, The Boston Globe, Dallas News, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Minnesota Public Radio, Texas Monthly, The Daily Beast, and the South Florida Sun Sentinel
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