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Assumption

By: Percival Everett
Narrated by: Ron Butler
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In Assumption, Percival Everett is on top form as he once again upends our expectations about characters, plot, race, and meaning.

Ogden Walker, deputy sheriff of a small New Mexico town, is on the trail of an old woman’s murderer. But at the crime scene, his are the only footprints leading up to and away from her door. Something is amiss, and even his mother knows it. As other cases pile up, Ogden gives chase, pursuing flimsy leads for even flimsier reasons. His hunt takes him from the seamier side of Denver to a hippie commune as he seeks the puzzling solution. A wild ride to the heart of a baffling mystery, Assumption is a literary thriller like no other from the author of Erasure, now an Oscar-nominated feature film.

©2011 Percival Everett (P)2024 Macmillan Publishers International Limited Absurdist African American Crime Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Literature & Fiction Mystery Crime Fiction
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The hero is decent. The plotting is boring. The style lacks any of the punch of either "Trees" or "James". Was this written to prove the author could write a detective novel ? If so, it's a mighty disappointment. Walter Moseley has done all of this so much better.

So disappointing. I can barely believe it's from the author of the excellent "Trees" and "James".

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