NINA REVOYR'S NOVEL SOUTHLAND

Nina Revoyr's novel Southland

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Nina Revoyr's novel Southland

An absolutely compelling story of family and racial tragedy. Revoyr novel is honest in detailing the brutal history of southern California, and honorable in showing how families survived with love and tenacity and dignity. "Susan Straight, author of Moon HighWire

Southland brings us a fascinating history of the race, love, murder and history, in the context of an ever-changing Los Angeles. A young Japanese-American, Jackie Ishida, is in her last semester of law school when his grandfather, Frank Sakai, dies unexpectedly. In trying to comply with a request from his will, Jackie discovers that four African-American children were killed in the store Frank owned during the Watts riots of 1965. Along with James Lanier, a cousin of one victim, Jackie tries to reconstruct the history of death of children. In the process, she discovers the secrets of long-standing history of his family.

Southland is a young woman in the process of learning their own history has bestowed upon his grave obligation to engage in the larger world. And in Frank Sakai and his African-American friends, presents characters who find significant common ground in their struggles, but also trade with each other through cultural-historical reasons-still in dispute.

And out of the past, from the internment camps of World War II, the fields of barley Crenshaw District in the 1930's, the streets of Watts in the 1960's, to nightclubs and clothing factories of the 1990 Southland weaves a story of Los Angeles in all its faces and forms. Nina Revoyr is the author of Hunger necessary ("Irresistible" .- Time magazine). She was born in Japan, grew up in Tokyo and Los Angeles, and is of Japanese and Polish-American. Lives and works in Los Angeles.

Southland combines skillful writing and an interesting plot. It's the kind of story that keeps you reading late into the night. I was trapped in the mystery of the history of their players were trying to solve by my side.

In the beginning of my agony on the books that I missed the first time and cleaning my library, one of my discoveries was the second novel by Nina Revoyr entitled Southland. When I first read the novel Revoyr debut, hunger necessary many years ago when I first came to AALBC.com. At the time Revoyr have been in the same category as Susan Straight (I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots, and place Guide) as authors who can tell true stories about African Americans realistic interaction with other cultures African Americans and African-American authors are not. In Hunger necessary, a young basketball player Japanese struggle with his sexuality when he falls for a fellow African Americans. The situation worsens when his father married the mother of a teammate. I loved the hunger necessary! It is an incredible novel. In southern California, the connection continues Revoyr Japanese Latin America and Africa with a great family drama. With hunger necessary Revoyr just fell in ...