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December 21, 2007
Brett Ellen Block, '95
The Lightning Rule, William Morrow, 2006
The book: In this novel, Detective Martin Emmett investigates a gruesome murder that hints at something even more sinister. During the summer of 1967 in Newark, New Jersey, the temperature is rising in the predominantly black Central Ward as racial tensions worsen. While riots rage on the streets outside his station, Emmett struggles to do his job surrounded by corruption and indifference.
The author: Brett Ellen Block is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the University of East Anglia's Fiction Writing Program. She won the Drue Heinz Literary Prize for her debut collection of stories, "Destination Known," and is a recipient of the Michener-Copernicus Fellowship. She lives in Los Angeles.
Posted by tobiaslw at December 21, 2007 03:34 PM