Ask a Bookseller: 'Heaven, My Home'
Amber Collins, owner of Soul Book Nook in Waterloo, Iowa, recommends a bit of crime fiction, “Heaven, My Home,” a Highway 59 novel by Attica Locke.
Texas Ranger Darren Mathews has a new case: searching for a missing child in a small Texas town. The missing boy is the son of an imprisoned white supremacy leader, and the search brings Mathews face-to-face with historical hate systems and inherited systemic racism.
“The book from the beginning had me caught up in [Mathews’ own] ethical dilemma,” said Collins, “and then it took a turn where he now had to help those he is judging for their immorality and their belief. So he was caught between his own ethical dilemma and judging other for theirs. It was absolutely compelling.”
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