![]() Locke tells NPR's Steve Inskeep about the inspiration for her new novel, and why she feels the past "walks with us still."Ĭlose overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Cutting Season Author Attica Locke "I had moments when I was writing it where I was very afraid of offending people," Locke says, "because of some of the ways in which I think the book suggests that there's a script about race that we've been following for hundreds of years that doesn't really work anymore." The result is The Cutting Season, a thrilling, century-spanning story of two murders. The 2008 presidential election changed everything she had been taught about race, she says - and, as an African-American writer, she felt compelled to write about that new reality. ![]() When it comes to healing the wounds of its troubled racial past, the United States is still in its "adolescent phase," says novelist Attica Locke. It was there that she became inspired to write her new work of fiction, The Cutting Season. In 2004, novelist Attica Locke attended the wedding of an interracial couple at Oak Alley Plantation in Vacherie, La. ![]()
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