![]() He has become more widely known and successful after his victory in the Cole Oil case that the previous book recounted. Much has happened in attorney Jay Porter's life as well. (If I sound bitter, it is only because I am.) So, by 1996, the Houston Chronicle is the only daily newspaper. The money-grubbing, non-journalist owner decided to shut down with no warning to the employees. One notable event that has some relationship to the plot of this book was the closing of the venerable Houston Post in April 1994. It is 1996 and much has happened in those intervening years. Pleasantville, which takes its name from a Houston suburb built expressly for upwardly mobile Black people, is set fifteen years after the events of the first book. I decided not to deprive myself of that pleasure any longer. I read Black Water Rising, Attica Locke's first novel, earlier this year and I was eager to read this one which is a sequel. ![]()
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