''Bluebird, Bluebird'' is a 2017 novel by

Attica Locke Attica Locke (born 1974 in Houston, Texas) is an American fiction author and writer/producer for television and film. Career A 1995 graduate of Northwestern University School of Communication, Locke was a fellow at the Sundance Institute's Featu ...

. Its main character is an

African-American African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans and Afro-Americans) are an Race and ethnicity in the United States, ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from sub-Saharan Africa. The term "African American ...

Texas Ranger, Darren Matthews, from the eastern part of the state. He investigates the death of another African-American, a Chicago lawyer named Michael Wright, in the town of Lark. The novel has the subtitle "A Highway 59 Novel" as the story takes place around that route; Locke herself in real life had family members living in communities along that road. Neely Tucker of ''

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'' wrote that the setting "feels stuck in a sepia-toned time warp." Esi Edugyan of ''

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'' wrote that the work is "a narrative of exhilarating immediacy" which has "hallmarks of modern crime fiction" with some of its own character.

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Bluebird, Bluebird
' - Attica Locke official website 2017 American novels Novels set in Texas Mulholland Books books {{AfricanAmerican-stub