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Pleasantville by Attica Locke

Pleasantville by Attica Locke Harper April 21, 2015 Paperback, 432 pages Pleasantville is a predominantly black neighborhood on the northeast side of Houston, Texas. This neighborhood is notorious for its high voter turnout in most elections. The novel, Pleasantville, by Attica Locke, is set in Pleasantville, the neighborhood, in 1996 and begins with the disappearance…