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Join us for a conversation about Southland by Nina Revoyr. Revoyr examines the gritty, colorful, sometimes tumultuous history of Los Angeles's Crenshaw district—once a truly integrated neighborhood but now predominantly African American.
As Jackie Ishida helps her aunt deal with her grandfather's will, she finds out that a beneficiary named Curtis Martindale died in the searing 1965 Watts riots. When she subsequently discovers that Curtis and three other young men died in her grandfather's grocery store, she is alarmed and shaken. She locates one of Curtis's cousins, and together, they launch an investigation into what happened and whether her grandfather was involved. The storyline takes more twists and turns than a road full of hairpin curves as possible suspects in the four boys' deaths—murders, to be precise—are identified and dismissed, and some long-held secrets are revealed. The result is foremost a meditation on race, cultural beliefs, opportunity, prejudice, and family obligation that drives home its messages by way of presenting and solving the murders. Though her writing can be stilted, Revoyr (of Japanese and Polish American descent) has crafted a provocative, absorbing story with fully realized characters.
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