I first met Susan Straight back in 2001, at the National Book Awards festivities. She was there because her novel, Highwire Moon , had been nominated for fiction the same year Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections was put into the mix. I was there chairing the Young People Literature's jury. We'd been writing to each other and talking on the phone, but Susan's southern California and I'm Philadelphia, and it took a touch of fate to bring us face to face, blue eye to green, her daughter saying hello to my son, both of us dangling fancy earrings. Two weeks ago, Susan sent a copy of her newest book my way. It's called Take One Candle Light a Room , and in the cracked places of these past few nights, I've been reading. The book is complex, and alive. It sounds just like Susan (patois and poetry), and if you want to see Los Angeles through the eyes of a "walkin fool," if you want to try to imagine how the legacy of slavery passes down through the...
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