Why would a self-proclaimed “nervous mom,” whose daughter leaves for college this fall, write a novel that involves a parent’s worst nightmare? “What are you talking about?” Attica Locke recalled telling her therapist, who’d raised a similar question. “That’s just the story.”The story is Guide Me Home (Mulholland Books, September 3), the final volume in Locke’s acclaimed Highway 59 crime trilogy. Its plot centers on Sera (which sounds a lot like Locke’s daughter’s name, Clara), the only Black member of an otherwise all-white sorority, who goes missing from her East Texas university campus.The fifty-year-old Houston native admitted that when she writes, “there’s a lot of stuff that’s looking me right in the face that strangely I won’t see until it’s over.” But “over” can be…
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