New novels transport readers to 1950s D.C. and Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge.
Location is key in these history-inspired novels whose settings include Alabama in the 1960s and Washington during the McCarthy era.Quinn’s thriller-esque works are mostly set in wartime, but in thisa different fight is underway: the Red Scare and the rise of McCarthyism. The novel opens in the aftermath of a murder and then quickly flips back five years to 1950 at the Briarwood, a D.C. boardinghouse for women.
The novel’s “Pirates of the Caribbean” sensibilities are tempered with accounts of the mistreatment of women, enslaved people and multiracial characters. The author’s lively and compassionate writing style is addictive. The author of “Mexican Gothic” places the 1950s Hollywood studio system under a glaring spotlight in thisabout the making of an epic film and the story that inspired it.
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