As with the boys in this novel-and Richard Montoya’s Water & Power-the surface fails to account for the person behind the persona. Instead, Mosley tracks the lifespan of brothers Thomas and Eric from birth to young adulthood today, paralleling black and white L.A., poverty and privilege, class and color. There’s no crime, per se, in Fortunate Son. Now Mosley brings forth Thomas Beerman and Eric Nolan in what is likely to be their only novel. A new lead character shows up and perhaps dissatisfies long-time “colored” readers. A sci-fi novel here and there mystifies some readers. Socrates Fortlow finds a warm welcome among some readers. Ostensibly a detective writer, Mosley spins a crime yarn against the backdrop of Los Angeles black / white race relations, and the neighborhoods of Central and, now and then East Los.Įvery now and then, Mosley tosses in something different. Easy, his lethal sidekick Mouse, and a host of others, people almost a dozen novels spanning a period from the end of WWII to the 1965 Watts riots. Walter Mosley writes some of literature's best characters in his "colored" series novels featuring Easy Rawlins.
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