{"id":34825,"date":"2023-12-24T05:58:58","date_gmt":"2023-12-24T10:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=34825"},"modified":"2023-12-24T05:58:58","modified_gmt":"2023-12-24T10:58:58","slug":"farewell-amethystine-by-walter-mosley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=34825","title":{"rendered":"FAREWELL, AMETHYSTINE by Walter Mosley!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z122423farewell_amethystine.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"755\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Any time a new Walter Mosley novel is announced, it is cause for celebration.\u00a0 If it is an Easy Rawlins tale, the party goes to the next level.\u00a0 Get ready to go to the next level.\u00a0 FAREWELL, AMETHYSTINE drops June 4, 2024.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the synopsis&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Easy Rawlins\u2019 latest client sends him down a warren of memory and nostalgia, blinding him to reason and risk, from \u201cmaster of the genre,\u201d (Washington Post) Walter Mosley.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">January 1970 finds Ezekiel \u201cEasy\u201d Rawlins, LA\u2019s premier Black detective, at 50 years of age despite all expectations. He has a loving family, a beautiful home, and a thriving investigation agency. All is right with the world\u2026 and then Amethystine Stoller, his own personal Helen of Troy, arrives. Her ex-husband is missing. A simple enough case. But even as Easy takes his first step in the investigation he trips. He falls into the memory of things past. Little things, like loss, love, a world war, and a hunger that has eaten at him since he was a Black boy on his own on the streets of Fifth Ward, Houston, Texas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The missing ex, a young white man named Curt Fields, is found dead. Easy\u2019s only real friend in the LAPD, Melvin Suggs, has gone into hiding rather than allow his femme fatale wife to go to the gas chamber. And that\u2019s only the beginning.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Easy finds himself pressed into a reckoning. All of his success cannot succor his heart. The 1970\u2019s have ushered in new expectations of men and women, Black and White, and Easy has to make a choice that will almost certainly hasten a permanent descent, one that might sunder his soul.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Deal me in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Any time a new Walter Mosley novel is announced, it is cause for celebration.\u00a0 If it is an Easy Rawlins<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,52,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-books","category-crime"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34826,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34825\/revisions\/34826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}