![]() ![]() ![]() She never makes it home, and her badly beaten corpse is found five days later, provoking a massive murder investigation. With less than an hour to go before the polls close she decides to head for home, but as she waits on a street corner someone is watching her. Jay Porter, the novel’s principal protagonist, has fought a number of class actions for the community over pollution caused by a number of large businesses, and has established himself as a thorn in the side Alicia Nowell is a young woman about to graduate from high school and has been helping the ‘get out the vote’ push for one of the candidates, delivering leaflets and fliers throughout the neighbourhood. There are a lot of burning issues around Pleasantville. ![]() ![]() The locals there are being canvassed by rival candidates for a mayoral election which has split the local community. The Presidential contest is not, however, the only election holding the attention of the people of Pleasantville, which is a real area in Houston, Texas. Attica Locke’s novel opens on 5 November 1996, when Americans were in the process of returning President Clinton to serve his second term at the White House. ![]()
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