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488 pages; 25 cm

Summary

Straight's brilliant story of the effects of violence in America on three generations of a family is told through the lives of the Thompsons, a large, independent clan who live in Treetown, above downtown Rio Seco, California, and operate a car towing and repair business. Patriarch Hosea is a proud man, and a hardened one, whose father was killed in the violence that erupted in Tulsa many years earlier.
All Hosea's memories come flooding back with ferocious force when the bodies of two white women are found engulfed in flames in an abandoned car on his property. These are the first signs that someone wants Hosea off his land; it is up to his son Marcus, the only one of the six children of Hosea and his half-Mexican wife who can negotiate with the white world, to help the family hold on to their home and their livelihood.
. But it is only when Marcus' nephew Mortrice - a young man infatuated with guns and the power that they bring - comes back to Rio Seco from gang-ridden Los Angeles that the real secrets of the bodies found on Thompson land are revealed, as Rio Seco erupts in the same wave of trashing and looting that has engulfed the nearby metropolis.

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ISBN

0786860863

LCCN

95050065

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Columbia University Libraries