![]() ![]() In this case, the real story quite literally emerges from the grave, crying out to be told. We can try to run away from it or put a glossy sheen over it, but the real story is always there. ![]() The Cutting Season, Attica Locke’s second novel, uses this crime as a jumping-off point to explore the idea that history never leaves us. Caren’s uneasy tranquility with the life she’s made for her and her daughter, Morgan, is disrupted when the body of a worker from the neighboring sugar cane field is found lying face down near the plantation’s slave quarters. Yet when a brief stint in law school and a not-so-brief relationship didn’t work out, this monument to a long-dead past-or, to be more accurate, to a version of the past made palatable for tourist-called Caren back, and she moved onto the grounds to work as manager. Caren Gray had every opportunity to get away from Belle Vie, the Louisiana plantation where she grew up and where her family has served in one capacity or another for generations. ![]()
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