Mecca

✍ Scribed by Susan Straight

• Book ID: 112046977
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 898 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780374604523

✦ Synopsis

"A masterpiece." —Michael Connelly. "A heartbreaker from beginning to end." —Viet Thanh Nguyen.
Named a Most Anticipated Book of March 2022 by the Los Angeles Times and Alta
From the National Book Award finalist Susan Straight, Mecca is a stunning epic tracing the intertwined lives of native Californians fighting for life and landJohnny Frías has California in his blood. A descendant of the state's Indigenous people and Mexican settlers, he has Southern California's forgotten towns and canyons in his soul. He spends his days as a highway patrolman pulling over speeders, ignoring their racist insults, and pushing past the trauma of his rookie year, when he killed a man assaulting a young woman named Bunny, who ran from the scene, leaving Johnny without a witness. But like the Santa Ana winds that every year bring the risk of fire, Johnny's moment of action twenty years ago sparked a slow-burning chain...