The Atlas Of Reds And Blues by Devi S. Laskar, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Named a Washington Post Best Book of the YearThe entire novel takes place over the course of a single morning... and the effect is devastatingly potent." - Marie Claire When a woman - known only as Mother - moves her family from Atlanta to its wealthy suburbs, she discovers that neither the times nor the people have changed since her childhood in a small Southern town. Despite the intervening decades, Mother is met with the same questions: Where are you from? No, where are you really from? The American-born daughter of Bengali immigrants, she finds that her answer - Here - is never enough. Mother's simmering anger breaks through one morning, when, during a police raid on her home, she finally refuses to be complacent - and suffers all-too-familiar consequences."Devi S. Laskar's The Atlas of Reds and Blues is as narratively beautiful as it is brutal... I've never read a novel that does nearly as much in so few pages." - Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy " | The Atlas Of Reds And Blues by Devi S. Laskar, Paperback | Indigo Chapters