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SUMMARY:Manchester Literature Festival: Attica Locke
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DESCRIPTION:‘This is the best kind of thriller: as literate and thoughtfu
 l as it is fast-moving. Attica Locke has bags of style\, and sings the b
 lues on every page’ - Mick Herron (Slow Horses)\n\nWe’re thrilled to wel
 come American crime writer Attica Locke to Manchester Literature Festiva
 l for a rare UK event. In Guide Me Home\, the latest of her gripping\, p
 olitically charged crime novels\, Texas Ranger Darren Matthews is in tro
 uble: he might be about to stand trial in front of a Grand Jury\; his di
 fficult and destructive mother is back in his life\, and a young Black w
 oman from an all-white sorority appears to be missing\, although her sor
 ority sisters and her family deny she has disappeared. With his job\, re
 lationship and possibly his life on the line\, Darren is forced to grapp
 le with the realities of living in Trump’s America. \n\nAttica Locke is 
 an author\, screenwriter and producer who was born in Houston\, Texas. S
 he is the author of six novels including Heaven\, My Home\, a Waterstone
 s Thriller of the Month\; Bluebird\, Bluebird\, winner of the CWA Steel 
 Dagger\; Pleasantville\, longlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fi
 ction\, and Black Water Rising\, shortlisted for the Orange Prize. Her s
 creenwriting/producer credits include When They See Us\, Empire\, and th
 e Emmy-nominated Little Fires Everywhere\, for which she won an NAACP Im
 age award for television writing.\n\nPresented by Manchester Literature 
 Festival in partnership with the Centre for New Writing and Creative Man
 chester.\n
STATUS:TENTATIVE
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CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:Central Library\, St Peter's Square\, City Centre\, Manchester\,
  M2 5PD
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