The Demise of Luleta Jones

By Mark Allen Boone
(Blacksmith Books (IL), Paperback, 9780977251506, 261pp.)

Publication Date: March 2006

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A rare work where the literary novel and the mystery meet. Reporter Theo Pugh is obsessed with uncovering the facts surrounding the mysterious suicide of an enigmatic public school teacher from a newly gentrified Chicago neighborhood. The investigations peels away the community's thin veneer, portraying the dire consequences that gifted African Americans suffer when they violate their community's narrow conventions.
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