Darren’s flawed but he’s also trying his best to do what’s right in a part of the world where this doesn’t come easy. While Attica Locke’s Texas Ranger may have some of the character traits we associate with law enforcement in this kind of story, he has others which set him apart. Darren must solve the crimes – and save himself in the process – before Lark’s long-simmering racial fault lines erupt. So when allegiance to his roots puts his job in jeopardy, he travels up Highway 59 to the small town of Lark, where two murders – a black lawyer from Chicago and a local white woman – have stirred up a hornet’s nest of resentment. Deeply conflicted about his home state, he was the first in his family to get as far away from Texas as he could. When it comes to law and order, East Texas plays by its own rules – a fact that Darren Mathews, a black Texas Ranger working the backwoods towns of Highway 59, knows all too well. In Bluebird, Bluebird, two murders take us to a small town off Highway 59 in East Texas, where we discover what lies behind the racial tensions, which are a part of people’s everyday reality there.
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