NYT bestselling author! Attica Locke, GUIDE ME HOME
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Zibby Owens
4.5 • 643 Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Screenwriter, TV producer, and New York Times bestselling author Attica Locke chats with Zibby about GUIDE ME HOME, the stunning culmination of the award-winning Highway 59 trilogy, where Detective Darren comes out of retirement to investigate the case of a missing black college student from an all-white sorority. Attica reflects on her protagonist, Darren Matthews, a conflicted Black Texas Ranger, and his complicated relationship with his mother. She also talks about how her novels explore crime stories set in small East Texas towns and her fascination with ordinary people making bad decisions. Finally, she delves into how she balances novel writing with her work in television, the challenges of screenwriting, and how working on the Netflix series From Scratch changed her life.
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| 0:42.8 | Attica Locke is the author of Guide Me Home, a Highway 59 novel. She is a New York Times best-selling |
| 0:48.1 | author of six novels, including Heaven, My Home, sequel to the Edgar Award-winning Bluebird, Bluebird, |
| 0:53.6 | Pleasantville, winner of the Harper-Lee Prize for Legal Fiction and long-listed for the Bailey's Prize for Women's Fiction, the Cutting Season, winner of the Ernest Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, and her debut Blackwater Rising, which was nominated for an Edgar Award, an NAA-CP award, as well as the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and was shortlisted |
| 1:12.4 | for the Women's Prize for Fiction. A former fellow at the Sundance Institute's feature |
| 1:16.6 | filmmakers' lab, Attica is also a screenwriter and TV producer with credits that include |
| 1:22.2 | Empire, When They See Us, and the Emmy-nominated Little Fires Everywhere, for which she won an |
| 1:27.4 | NACP Image Award for |
| 1:29.3 | television writing. She co-created an executive produced an adaptation of her sister, Tembi Locke's |
| 1:35.0 | memoir from scratch, a memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home for Netflix, which was a top |
| 1:40.5 | 10 hit in 50 countries during its first weeks on air. A native of Houston, Texas, |
| 1:45.4 | Attica lives in Los Angeles, California, with her husband and daughter. Welcome, Attica. Thank you so |
| 1:50.6 | much for coming on Mom's Don't have time to read books to discuss Guide Me Home, a Highway 59 novel. |
| 1:57.0 | Congrats. Oh, my God. Thank you so much for having me. Oh, it's my pleasure. Okay, tell everybody about Guide Me Home, but also give a little backstory. I know this is the third book in the series about Darren Matthews and everything. So give a little backstory on on Darren and why it's such a big deal that his mom is coming back. I mean, this is a huge deal. |
| 2:18.6 | The uninvited mom, who hasn't had that happen? |
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