Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series

  Ten of us in person plus two more over Zoom met on Saturday Oct. 30 to discuss Bluebird Bluebird by Attica Locke. Bluebird Bluebird is the initial book in Locke’s Highway 59 Series. The prologue opens with a woman, Geneva Sweet bringing food and music to the graves of her husband and her son. Chapter 1 then begins with the main character Darren Mathews a Black Texas Ranger who is giving testimony on behalf of his friend Rutherford McMillan aka Mack. A white supremacist named Ronnie Salvo constantly harassed and threatened Mack. . One night, when the harassment turned to confrontation on Mack’s property, Mack called Mathews to come out to the property. No violence occurred that night but a few days later, someone found Ronnie Salvo dead and Mathew’s friend Mack is the number one suspect. Mathews’ superiors suspended him for going out to the property outside of authority. While on suspension, he’s given a suspicious assignment to look into two homicides in a town called Lark