Author Attica Locke: In America, We Walk 'Side By Side' With Our Past
Locke's novel Bluebird, Bluebird is set in Texas where her family roots stretch back to slavery. The family didn't go north during the Great Migration, she explains: "We said: No, Texas is ours, too."
Attica Locke's new novel Bluebird, Bluebird unfolds in rural East Texas along a stretch of U.S. highway 59. She describes it as "a thread on the map that ties together small towns like knots on a string."
During the Great Migration — the period during the 20th century when millions of African-Americans left the Southern U.S. — highway
