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The Atlas of Reds and Blues: A Novel
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The Atlas of Reds and Blues: A Novel

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  • A remarkable and structurally compelling autobiographical novel based on the author's life, The Atlas of Reds and Blues imagines a fundamental difference in one detail of her past: what if, when her home was raided by officers searching for evidence of a crime her husband did not commit, the author/narrator was shot? Laskar's husband, a tenured professor, was wrongly accused of racketeering (covered at length in The New York Times)
  • Showcasing the southern United States' simmering suburban racial tensions and powerful xenophobia, The Atlas of Reds and Blues is a timely story told from the perspective of the second-generation immigrant.
  • Strong candidate for ABA's Indies Introduce and B&N Discover programs
  • Laskar is a wonderful novelist, and this is a beautiful, relatable novel perfect for book clubs and reading groups
  • Art, activism, and anger surge through the novel as both motivating and healing forces
  • Northern California-based author; ARCs available at NCIBA, SCIBA, and ALA Midwinter
  • Author is a native of Chapel Hill, NC and received her MFA from Columbia, so has strong ties on both coasts
  • Lexile Measure: 980L
  • LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCounterpoint
    Release dateFeb 5, 2019
    ISBN9781640091542
    Author

    Devi S. Laskar

    DEVI S. LASKAR is the author of The Atlas of Reds and Blues, which won the Asian/Pacific American Award and the Crook’s Corner Book Prize, and was named a finalist for the Northern California Book Awards. She is an alumna of the OpEd Project and VONA and holds an MFA from Columbia University. Originally from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, she now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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      Another appalling story of how f**ked up this country is. There has never been any reason to be proud for being an "American". I am so sickened by the continuing and yes WORSENING racism in this country. WAKE UP America - you ARE a third world sh*t hole.Sorry, Ms. Laskar, I shouldn't rant here - your book was phenomenal.