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"I'm an LA native with a lot of love for LA crime fiction, but instead of preaching to the noir choir about The Long Goodbye , I'd like to gush about Southland by Nina Revoyr. It's a brilliant, ambitious, moving literary crime novel about two families in South Los Angeles and their tangled history between the 1930s and the 1990s. The central mystery is the death of four black boys in a Japanese-American man's store during the Watts Rebellion of 1965. It's a powerful book, one that I think about often, as well as a huge influence on my work. Right up there with Chandler." -- Stephanie Cha (of the LARB ) in GQ on "The Greatest Crime Novelists on Their Favorite Crime Novels Ever" "A story about injustice dressed up as a detective novel, Southland reminds us that activism is both an ongoing project and a deeply personal choice." -- Vallaire Wallace in Electric Lit on "The Novel That Shows Us How to Face our Past to Change Our Future" "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 , Ross MacDonald on "Where Noir Lives in the City of Angels" "It is the kind of saga tha

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Author

James, Marlon

Publisher

Akashic Books : Made available through hoopla

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781888451481

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Historical Fiction, Mystery

Rating

3.9 / 5 (733 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14