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Darktown by Thomas Mullen
4.0

Lots to process & think about, especially as the book is set in 1948, a mere 70 years ago when Atlanta created positions for the city's first eight black police officers. That's not even a full generation, really. While this is fiction, author Thomas Mullen did his historical research & gives a pretty unflinching look at what race relations & tensions were like then -- sadly, not hugely far off from today's racial tensions in the US.