In a sense, coming face to face with history is what The Cutting Season is all about. "Their spindly columns were like tired arms at the end of a long day's work, nearly crushed beneath the weight of what they were being asked to hold up… No person should experience this moment alone, this face-to-face meeting with one's history." "Each cabin, silhouetted by the newly set sun, was no more than a few feet wide, smaller than some of the SUVs riding on American highways," writes Locke. A t one point in The Cutting Season, Attica Locke's stunning second novel, a man is utterly blind-sided when he comes upon the preserved slave quarters at the Louisiana plantation house, Belle Vie.
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