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    Southland

    By Nina Revoyr

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    A compelling story of race, love, murder, and history against the backdrop of an ever-changing Los Angeles.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAkashic Books
    Release dateApr 1, 2003
    ISBN9781936070480
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    Nina Revoyr

    Nina Revoyr is the author of four previous novels, including The Age of Dreaming, which was nominated for the LA Times Book Prize; Southland, a Los Angeles Times best seller and "Best Book" of 2003; and Wingshooters, which won an Indie Booksellers' Choice Award and was selected by O, The Oprah Magazine as one of "10 Titles to Pick Up Now." Revoyr lives and works in Los Angeles. Lost Canyon is her latest novel.

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    • 5/5
      I am so impressed with this author. She brings the hidden history of this country to life. The hidden history of gays and lesbians, of Japanese-Americans, African-Americans, And what is so amazing is that she tells a compelling story...while her novels are truly educational they succeed as fiction.This novel works on so many levels for me--intellectual, emotional, and spiritual. I found it very inspiring in all kinds of ways.
    • 5/5
      When Jackie Ishida's grandfather dies, her aunt finds in his closet a box of cash from the sale of his old store, along with an old will leaving the money to someone they've never heard of. Jackie agrees to help find this guy, only to find out he died. Was murdered, in fact, along with three other boys, in her grandfather's store during the Watts riots in 1965. As she and James Lanier, a cousin of the boy, look into the murders, Jackie learns more than she expected to about her grandfather.I really loved this book a lot. It's set in LA, but not the Hollywood LA that you usually see in books and movies (it's so rare to see a portrayal of the LA I know and love). The main character is a lesbian, but it's not The Plot, just a fact about her (what? You mean there can be stories about gay people that aren't about being gay???). She's also Japanese-American, but this isn't a story about internment camps (they are mentioned, during some flashbacks in her grandfather's POV, but it's not the point of the story, and boy is that rare). It's also a really neat story. My one complaint is that it's really tell-y. Like, it could have been cut down by at least a third if the author had just trusted the readers instead of having so much internal exposition about what people were thinking and feeling every step of the way.
    • 4/5
      It's pretty good historical fiction/mystery, about Japanese American and African American history in LA. It's told in three time periods; the 40's, covering WWII and internment camps; the Watts Riots, and then 1994. The story did hold my interest, and an interesting setting, but at times I felt that Revoyr tried to do too much, and the story could have been told with fewer characters and details. The lesbian sup-plot seemed like an add-on that didn't add a lot. I did like the historical detail. I was especially interested in the parts about the experience of Japanese American GI's.
    • 4/5
      3.5 stars. Family saga, mystery, crime drama, with a bit of romance thrown in.After Frank Sakai's death, his daughter Lois finds an old will naming someone she doesn't know, and a box of memorabilia. She tasks her niece, Frank's granddaughter Jackie--with figuring out what it's about. Jackie learns a lot about her grandfather--his life when interred, his WW2 experiences, his store, his community (Angeles Mesa), his family, his friends. She also finds out all about what happened during the Watts riots.This book is interesting and worth the read, and I especially liked the real places referenced. I found the romance to be an odd distraction in the story--unless the idea was to contrast a current relationship with a historic relationship?