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. \u2015Los Angeles Times<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jackie Ishida\u2019s grandfather had a store in Watts where four boys were killed during the riots in 1965, a mystery she attempts to solve. \u2015New York Times Book Review, included in \u201cWhere Noir Lives in the City of Angels\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\u2015and 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\u2019 deaths. In the process, Jackie unearths the long-held secrets of her family\u2019s history\u2015and 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.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":16796,"template":"","format":[59],"meta":{"_acf_changed":true},"book-author":[542],"blockchain":[4],"book-genre":[],"narrator":[],"book-publisher":[227],"series":[],"class_list":["post-16793","book-dea","type-book-dea","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","book-author-nina-revoyr","blockchain-cardano","format-ebook","book-publisher-akashic-books-ltd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n