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Grant Park

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Leonard Pitts

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Praise for Leonard Pitts, Jr.'s novel GRANT PARK : Grant Park is layered, insightful, and passionate . Pitts's subtly explosive language grips readers with the delicate subject matter and earnestly implores them to understand that '[race] has always meant something and it always will.' The scars will remain, but stunningly powerful examinations like Grant Park can be the salve that helps heal open wounds. � Shelf-Awareness , starred review Leonard Pitts has written a taut thriller that weaves together a stark look at America's tortured racial past with a fast-paced tale of terrorist conspiracy and love rekindled . �Neil Steinberg, Chicago Sun Times �. . . these ideas [are] perennially salient, and doubly so today, given a growing litany of American sorrows, from Ferguson to Charleston and beyond. . . . lays bare the extent to which Americans, black and white, still struggle to articulate the basic elements of our shared past. � Vinson Cunningham, New York Times Book Review The book is a page-turner, but also one that commands deep reflection on history, racism, and personal choices. �Blanca Torres, The Seattle Times A novel as significant as it is engrossing. � Booklist , starred review Pitts masterfully revisits [election night on November 4, 2008] and four decades of the civil rights struggle to create one of the most suspenseful and spectacular fictitious moments you'll experience this fall. �Patrik Henry Bass, Essence Pitts does a skillful job of building tension in the novel's historical sections as well as on Election Day. . . . He also does something not every political thriller writer does: builds believable, complex characters. � Colette Bancroft, Tampa Bay Times [A] high-stakes, hard-charging political thriller. . . . The sharply etched characters, careful attention to detail, and rich newspaper lore propel Pitts's socially relevant novel. � Publishers Weekly And then there are those thrills�gasping, mouth-gaping page- turners that author Leonard Pitts Jr. weaves through another realism: truthful, brutal plot-lines about racial issues of the last five decades, mulling over exactly how far we've really come. That makes this will-they- live-or-won't-they nail-biter into something that also made me think, and I absolutely loved it. � Terri Schlichenmeyer, The Bookworm Sez An important book, one that honestly examines the current, tumultuous racial divide in our country and demands we not turn away from its harsh realities. �Amy Canfield, Miami Herald Grant Park is a book that's both socially relevant and a lot of fun. � NewCity In the aftermath of this summer's racially motivated mass murder in Charleston, South Carolina, by an avowed white supremacist, there's near-eerie prescience in Pitts' historical novel. . .[ Grant Park ], with urgency and passion, makes readers aware that the mistakes of the past are neglected at the future's peril. � Kirkus Reviews Grant Park is a monumental work, so all-encompassing in scope that reviewers will be hard-pressed to do it justice. Pitts's passion for a solution holds strong to the end of his novel even as his central character seems to give up. Readers will find Grant Park is real. � Bookpleasures.com Grant Park is a thriller, and readers will find themselves turning pages accordingly, although the interior stories of Bob and Malcolm regarding their younger selves may be the real action. �Brian Burnes, The Kansas City Star Praise for Leonard Pitts, Jr.'s previous novel FREEMAN : A uniquely American epic. . . by a knowledgeable, compassionate and relentlessly truthful writer. � Howard Frank Mosher, Washington Post A pretty powerful love story. � Audie Cornish, All Things Considered Gorgeously written; a searing, wrenching read. Fans of Cold Mountain and Cormac McCarthy will love this story.