Description
Book SynopsisDrawing inspiration from the author's own terrifying experience of a raid on her home, Devi S. Laskar's debut novel explores, in exquisite, lyrical prose, an alternate reality that might have been.
Trade ReviewDevi S. Laskar's
The Atlas of Reds and Blues is
as narratively beautiful as it is brutal. In prose that moves between cushioning characters' falls and ushering our understandings of characters' utopias, Laskar creates a world where the consequences of American terror never stop reverberating.
I've never read a novel that does nearly as much in so few pages. Laskar has changed how we will all write about state-sanctioned terror in this nation
The Atlas of Reds and Blues is
an unforgettable exploration of what it means to be a woman of colour in contemporary America. Laskar describes the climate of lingering racism that surrounds her narrator and family in a wealthy suburb of Atlanta with a poet's touch.
A searing, powerful, and beautifully written novelFrom the quotidian to the epic, from traumatizing invisibility to mortal danger, the cumulative effects of racism are balanced against the narrator's relentless determination to persevere - as a mother and as a human being.
The Atlas of Reds and Blues provides a
fiercely honest reckoning with today's cultural landscape, both its history and its future
