Attica Locke is a New York Times bestselling author of six books, including Guide Me Home, the conclusion of the Edgar Allen Poe Award–winning Bluebird, Bluebird trilogy; Black Water Rising, which was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction; and Pleasantville, which won the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction. She is also a writer and producer of television, working on such series as Little Fires Everywhere and From Scratch, for which she was co-creator and showrunner.

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