text: Campaign for the American Reader: What is Frances Brody reading?
  Featured at Writers Read: Frances Brody, author of Death of an Avid Reader.
  Attica Locke's title refers to the cutting season for sugar cane. Her story is set in a grand mansion once occupied by a plantation owning family who have now moved out and run the place as a visitor attraction under the management of Caren, a smart, attractive African American woman with a young daughter. Caren's late mother was...[read on]