ATTICA LOCKE is the author of the 2018 Edgar Award winner Bluebird, Bluebird; Pleasantville, which won the 2016 Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction and was long-listed for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction; Black Water Rising, which was nominated for an Edgar Award; and The Cutting Season, a national bestseller and winner of the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. She was a writer and producer on the Fox drama Empire and the upcoming Hulu adaptation of Little Fires Everywhere. A native of Houston, Locke lives in Los Angeles with her husband and daughter.

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Also by Attica Locke

Bluebird, Bluebird

Pleasantville

The Cutting Season

Black Water Rising

Praise for Attica Locke’s

Heaven, My Home

“Bewitching story and luscious language…The story has legs, the characters have character, and the dialogue has a wonderful regional tang. But it’s Locke’s descriptive language that gets me.”

—Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review

“Atmospheric…Ms. Locke, a canny storyteller, ties up enough strands to satisfy readers, while leaving enough loose ends to make us eager for Ranger Mathews’s next adventure in the Lone Star State.”

—Tom Nolan, Wall Street Journal

“The crime Locke really concerns herself with is an existential one: the legacy of America’s original sin…She writes with the authenticity of a lived experience.”

—Madhulika Sikka, Washington Post

“Attica Locke’s novel is masterful.”

—Urban Waite, San Francisco Chronicle

“In this scalp-prickling encore to her Edgar-winning Bluebird, Bluebird, Locke brings back intrepid Texas Ranger Darren Mathews…A gumbo of race and class prejudices captured in vivid detail.”

—O, The Oprah Magazine (Best Books of the Fall)

“A thrilling mystery, yes, but it’s also a powerful meditation on what it means to be human in these frightening times.”

—Mary Helen Specht, Texas Observer

“With her usual aplomb, Locke tackles history and its all-too-real emotional fallout in this splendid follow-up.”

—Eugenia Williamson, Boston Globe

“Over two books, Mathews has proved a richly realized character.”

—Andrew Dansby, Houston Chronicle

“Locke skillfully packs Heaven, My Home with realistic and, at times, uncomfortable situations as she depicts complicated characters…Locke once again excels in her superior storytelling.”

—Oline Cogdill, Associated Press

“Locke is adept at making her crime fiction transcend and become a powerful tool of social commentary, writing about race relations in the Deep South today.”

—Philip Cu-Unjieng, Metro Style

“Locke is the most celebrated African American writer of crime fiction. Although her books are about the black experience in the United States, they are universal in scope.”

—Barry Forshaw, Financial Times

“This is a beautifully and instantly gripping crime novel…Locke is one of the emerging stars of crime fiction.”

—Booklist (starred review)

“A propulsive and compelling novel with passages of gorgeous lyricism, with loving, elegiac evocations of Texas set alongside extended meditations on displacement, reconciliation and forgiveness, and on what ‘home’ means.”

—Sara Collins, The Guardian