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Availability:Out of StockContributor:Nina RevoyrPublish date:2003-04-01Pages:350
Language:EnglishPublisher:Akashic Books, Ltd.ISBN-13:9781888451412ISBN-10:1888451416UPC:9781888451412Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Mystery & Detective, LiteraryBook Topic:Historical, Women SleuthsAward:2004 Edgar Allan Poe Awards Nominee - Paperback Original Award|2003 Lambda Literary Awards Winner - Lesbian Fiction Award|2004 Stonewall Book Award Honor Book - Literature Award|2004 Triangle Awards Winner - Lesbian Fiction AwardSize:8.20 x 5.30 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SCK7WNKX9N

--Winner of a 2004 American Library Association Stonewall Honor Award in Literature
--Winner of the 2003 Lambda Literary Award
--Nominated for an Edgar Award

The plot line of Southland is the stuff of a James Ellroy or a Walter Mosley novel . . . But the climax fairly glows with the good-heartedness that Revoyr displays from the very first page. --Los Angeles Times

Jackie Ishida's grandfather had a store in Watts where four boys were killed during the riots in 1965, a mystery she attempts to solve. --New York Times Book Review, included in "Where Noir Lives in the City of Angels"

Nina Revoyr brings us a compelling story of race, love, murder, and history against the backdrop of Los Angeles. A young Japanese-American woman, Jackie Ishida, is in her last semester of law school when her grandfather, Frank Sakai, dies unexpectedly. While trying to fulfill a request from his will, Jackie discovers that four black teenagers were killed in the store he ran during the Watts Riots of 1965--and that the murders were never solved or reported. Along with James Lanier, a cousin of one of the victims, she tries to piece together the story of the boys' deaths. In the process, Jackie unearths the long-held secrets of her family's history--and her own. Moving in and out of the past, from the shipping yards and internment camps of World War II; to the barley fields of the Crenshaw District in the 1930s; to the means streets of Watts in the 1960s; to the night spots and garment factories of the 1990s, Southland weaves a tale of Los Angeles in all of its faces and forms.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Akashic Books, Ltd.ISBN-13:9781888451412ISBN-10:1888451416UPC:9781888451412Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Mystery & Detective, LiteraryBook Topic:Historical, Women SleuthsAward:2004 Edgar Allan Poe Awards Nominee - Paperback Original Award|2003 Lambda Literary Awards Winner - Lesbian Fiction Award|2004 Stonewall Book Award Honor Book - Literature Award|2004 Triangle Awards Winner - Lesbian Fiction AwardSize:8.20 x 5.30 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SCK7WNKX9N

Nina Revoyr is the author of The Necessary Hunger ("Irresistible." --Time Magazine). She was born in Japan, raised in Tokyo and Los Angeles, and is of Japanese and Polish-American descent. She lives and works in Los Angeles.

Publisher: Akashic Books, Ltd.

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🏆 2004 Edgar Allan Poe Awards Nominee - Paperback Original Award|2003 Lambda Literary Awards Winner - Lesbian Fiction Award|2004 Stonewall Book Award Honor Book - Literature Award|2004 Triangle Awards Winner - Lesbian Fiction Award

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