{"product_id":"the-cutting-season-a-novel-isbn-9780061802058","title":"The Cutting Season: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom Attica Locke, a writer and producer of FOX’s \u003cem\u003eEmpire:\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eThe Cutting Season\u003c\/em\u003e is a rare murder mystery with heft, a historical novel that thrills, a page-turner that makes you think. Attica Locke is a dazzling writer with a conscience.”—Dolen Perkins-Valdez, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/em\u003ebestselling author of \u003cem\u003eWench\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter her breathtaking debut novel, \u003cem\u003eBlack Water Rising\u003c\/em\u003e, won acclaim from major publications and respected crime fiction masters like James Ellroy and George Pelecanos, Locke returns with \u003cem\u003eThe Cutting Season\u003c\/em\u003e, a second novel easily as gripping and powerful as her first—a heart-pounding thriller that interweaves two murder mysteries, one on Belle Vie, a historic landmark in the middle of Lousiana’s Sugar Cane country, and one involving a slave gone missing more than one hundred years earlier. \u003cem\u003eBlack Water Rising\u003c\/em\u003e was nominated for a \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Times \u003c\/em\u003eBook Prize, an Edgar® Award, and an NAACP Image Award, and was short-listed for the Orange Prize in the U.K.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003eFrom Attica Locke, a writer and producer of FOX’s \u003cem\u003eEmpire:\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eThe Cutting Season\u003c\/em\u003e is a rare murder mystery with heft, a historical novel that thrills, a page-turner that makes you think. Attica Locke is a dazzling writer with a conscience.”—Dolen Perkins-Valdez, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/em\u003ebestselling author of \u003cem\u003eWench\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter her breathtaking debut novel, \u003cem\u003eBlack Water Rising\u003c\/em\u003e, won acclaim from major publications and respected crime fiction masters like James Ellroy and George Pelecanos, Locke returns with \u003cem\u003eThe Cutting Season\u003c\/em\u003e, a second novel easily as gripping and powerful as her first—a heart-pounding thriller that interweaves two murder mysteries, one on Belle Vie, a historic landmark in the middle of Lousiana’s Sugar Cane country, and one involving a slave gone missing more than one hundred years earlier. \u003cem\u003eBlack Water Rising\u003c\/em\u003e was nominated for a \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Times \u003c\/em\u003eBook Prize, an Edgar® Award, and an NAACP Image Award, and was short-listed for the Orange Prize in the U.K.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“Superb. . . . Inventive. . . . Insightful.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFlorida Sun-Sentinel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The impressively astute Attica Locke writes . . .  in much the same way that Mr. Lehane [does]. . . . Each is willing to use the murder mystery as a framework for much more ambitious, atmospheric fiction.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A thoughtful, well-written and absorbing read with a surprising ending.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMinneapolis Star Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Although \u003ci\u003eThe Cutting Season\u003c\/i\u003e succeeds as a thriller, above all it is a well-crafted warning about the damage wrought—generational, social, romantic—when the past is distorted or denied.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I was first struck by Attica Locke’s prose, then by the ingenuity of her narrative and finally and most deeply by the depth of her humanity. She writes with equal amounts grace and passion. . . . I’d probably read the phone book if her name was on the spine.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDennis Lehane\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[A] haunting mystery, where the murder of a migrant worker brings past and present into hair’s–breadth proximity. ” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Locke’s [\u003ci\u003eThe Cutting Season\u003c\/i\u003e] is written with fluidity and elegance, evoking the uniqueness of her setting and the nuances in the relationships of her characters, complicated by race, class, and history.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[An] atmospheric . . . nuanced look at the South’s tragic past and one strong woman’s stand against ingrained cultural and economic oppression.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Compelling. . . . A mystery that expands the whole idea of the mystery, reaching from the present deeply into the past. . . . Great writing, the kind that gives you goose bumps.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“More than a whodunit. While keeping the pace of a thriller, Ms. Locke blends Louisiana’s past with its present, tackling race, self-identity and corporate corruption. Ms. Locke’s prose revels in the sumptuous Louisiana landscape but also swoops and jumps as the story unravels.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Dripping with southern Gothic atmosphere. . . . Equal parts murder mystery and family drama, the novel also draws readers in through its considerations of African-American history and life in post-Katrina Louisiana.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“One of the most engaging and gifted new voices in the genre. . . . \u003ci\u003eThe Cutting Season\u003c\/i\u003e does more than exhume a body—it rattles the bones of slavery, race, class, and power to examine a crime that reverberates from more than a century ago.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAtlanta Journal-Constitution\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Cutting Season\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel about the shifting definitions of family, the persistent pull of history, the sterling promise of home, and the stunning power of love.  It pulled me in and held me close to the very last page.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTayari Jones, author of Silver Sparrow\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A layered, nuanced mystery with a social conscience. Weaving legal, social, historical, and economic elements into the story of a changing family, it’s a good choice for readers who enjoy multifaceted mysteries.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Cutting Season\u003c\/i\u003e is a rare murder mystery with heft, a historical novel that thrills, a page-turner that makes you think. Attica Locke is a dazzling writer with a conscience.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDolen Perkins-Valdez, New York Times bestselling author of Wench\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Absorbing. . . . 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