![]() ![]() ![]() Taken in by a caring foster family, Lou dedicates herself to her education while trying to put her mysterious origins behind her. Lou, a young Black woman, wakes up in an alley in 1930s Los Angeles, nearly naked and with no memory of how she got there or where she's from, only a fleeting sense that this isn't the first time she's found herself in similar circumstances. The story itself was so enjoyable, but the exploration of the ever shifting meaning of being a black woman in America draws renewed attention to important topics of racial equality that we continue to battle today. This novel defied all of my expectations. While this story unfolds, we also watch Lou become the LA Times’s first female journalist, breaking incredible stories of crime and greed in Prohibition-era California that makes you feel like you are right there with her… well, almost. Together they work to uncover the mystery of Lou’s past. Eventually she meets a man in a boxing gym whose face matches the one from her visions, and they quickly realize this is not the first time their paths have crossed. ![]() Lou is haunted by visions of a face that she begins obsessively drawing trying to put the pieces of her life together. Her name is Lou and she has almost no memory of how she ended up there, or really any other parts of her past. The Perishing begins with a young woman who wakes up partially-clothed in an alley. The premise-and 1930s LA historic setting-piqued my interest, but Natashia Deón’s writing really brings it home! As someone who does not usually gravitate towards stories with undertones of fantasy, this book does it so tastefully that it’s hard to put it down. ![]()
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