Susan Straight. (2022). Mecca. Unabridged Recorded Books, Inc.

Susan Straight. 2022. Mecca. Recorded Books, Inc.

Susan Straight, Mecca. Recorded Books, Inc, 2022.

Susan Straight. Mecca. Unabridged Recorded Books, Inc, 2022.

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Johnny Frías has California in his blood. A descendant of the state's indigenous people and Mexican settlers, he has Southern California's forgotten towns and canyons in his soul. He spends his days as a highway patrolman pulling over speeders, ignoring their racist insults, and pushing past the trauma of his rookie year, when he killed a man assaulting a young woman named Bunny, who ran from the scene, leaving Johnny without a witness. But like the Santa Ana winds that every year bring the risk of fire, Johnny's moment of action twenty years ago sparked a slow-burning chain of connections that unites a vibrant, complex cast of characters in ways they never see coming. In Mecca, the celebrated novelist Susan Straight crafts an unforgettable American epic, examining race, history, family, and destiny through the interlocking stories of a group of native Californians all gasping for air. With sensitivity, furor, and a cinematic scope that captures California in all its injustice,...

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Johnny Frías has California in his blood. A descendant of the state's indigenous people and Mexican settlers, he has Southern California's forgotten towns and canyons in his soul. He spends his days as a highway patrolman pulling over speeders, ignoring their racist insults, and pushing past the trauma of his rookie year, when he killed a man assaulting a young woman named Bunny, who ran from the scene, leaving Johnny without a witness. But like the Santa Ana winds that every year bring the risk of fire, Johnny's moment of action twenty years ago sparked a slow-burning chain of connections that unites a vibrant, complex cast of characters in ways they never see coming. In Mecca, the celebrated novelist Susan Straight crafts an unforgettable American epic, examining race, history, family, and destiny through the interlocking stories of a group of native Californians all gasping for air. With sensitivity, furor, and a cinematic scope that captures California in all its injustice, history, and glory, she tells a story of the American West through the eyes of the people who built it—and continue to sustain it. As the stakes get higher and the intertwined characters in Mecca slam against barrier after barrier, they find that when push comes to shove, it's always better to push back.

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     Starred review from November 22, 2021
     Straight’s ambitious return to fiction (after the memoir In the Country of Women) takes an empathetic look at members of Southern California’s Latinx community who face the dangers of fires, earthquakes, ICE raids, police brutality, and “la corona.” There’s Johnny Frias, a 40-year-old motorcycle cop who lives with the secret knowledge of the rapist he killed and buried in Bee Canyon 20 years earlier; Ximena, a young undocumented Mexican woman working as a maid at a desert spa, who comes across a newborn infant abandoned there; Merry Jordan, a neonatal nurse whose teenage son, Tenerife, lies brain dead in the hospital where she works, having been shot by a cop; Matelasse Rodrigue, a harried mother of two young children, whose husband, Reynaldo, has left them for a new life practicing capoeira; and Mrs. Bunny, a mysterious wealthy woman living in Los Angeles’s Los Feliz neighborhood, whose fate is improbably intertwined with those of Johnny and Ximena. The author’s love of the Inland Empire and its people shines through on every page, and there is a Didionesque quality to Straight’s depiction of SoCal characters living in the shadow of prejudice and poverty, but in place of Didion’s free-floating anomie there is fierce compassion. This evokes the best California fiction.

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   • content: Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Patricia Floyd, and Frankie Corzo create an ensemble of narrators almost as diverse as the many characters in this sprawling and impassioned novel. It focuses on the lives and heritages of the "other" Americans who make up the backbone of Southern California. There's the highway patrolman who is a descendant of the first Spanish settlers. A nurse whose ancestors arrived in New Orleans as slaves. And a young Mexican-American woman who toils at an upscale spa. These characters aren't crossing borders; they're already home. As the stories and voices interweave, the narrators save some of their most affecting performances for the passages dealing with the heartbreaking early days of the Covid-19 pandemic. Dynamic, contemporary listening. B.P. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2022, Portland, Maine

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