The Paragon Hotel
Author: Faye, Lyndsay
ISBN: 9780735210776
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 03 Dec 2019
Pages: 448
Format: Paperback / softback
A gun moll with a knack for disappearing flees from Prohibition-era Harlem to Portland's Paragon Hotel.BR>BR>b>A gun moll with a knack for disappearing flees from Prohibition-era Harlem to Portland's Paragon Hotel./b>br>br>The year is 1921, and "Nobody" Alice James has just arrived in Oregon with a bullet wound, a lifetime's experience battling the New York Mafia, and fifty thousand dollars in illicit cash. She befriends Max, a black Pullman porter who reminds her achingly of home and who saves Alice by leading her to the Paragon Hotel. But her unlikely sanctuary turns out to be an all-black hotel in a Jim Crow city, and its lodgers seem unduly terrified of a white woman on the premises. br>br>As she meets the churlish Dr. Pendleton, the stately Mavereen, and the club chanteuse Blossom Fontaine, she understands their dread. The Ku Klux Klan has arrived in Portland in fearful numbers--burning crosses, electing officials, infiltrating newspapers, and brutalizing blacks. And only Alice and her new Paragon "family" are searching for a missing mulatto child who has mysteriously vanished into the woods. To untangle the web of lies and misdeeds around her, Alice will have to answer for her own past, too.br>br>A richly imagined novel starring two indomitable heroines, i>The Paragon Hotel/i> at once plumbs the darkest parts of America's past and the most redemptive facets of humanity. From international-bestselling, multi-award-nominated writer Lyndsay Faye, it's a masterwork of historical suspense.
ISBN: 9780735210776
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 03 Dec 2019
Pages: 448
Format: Paperback / softback
A gun moll with a knack for disappearing flees from Prohibition-era Harlem to Portland's Paragon Hotel.BR>BR>b>A gun moll with a knack for disappearing flees from Prohibition-era Harlem to Portland's Paragon Hotel./b>br>br>The year is 1921, and "Nobody" Alice James has just arrived in Oregon with a bullet wound, a lifetime's experience battling the New York Mafia, and fifty thousand dollars in illicit cash. She befriends Max, a black Pullman porter who reminds her achingly of home and who saves Alice by leading her to the Paragon Hotel. But her unlikely sanctuary turns out to be an all-black hotel in a Jim Crow city, and its lodgers seem unduly terrified of a white woman on the premises. br>br>As she meets the churlish Dr. Pendleton, the stately Mavereen, and the club chanteuse Blossom Fontaine, she understands their dread. The Ku Klux Klan has arrived in Portland in fearful numbers--burning crosses, electing officials, infiltrating newspapers, and brutalizing blacks. And only Alice and her new Paragon "family" are searching for a missing mulatto child who has mysteriously vanished into the woods. To untangle the web of lies and misdeeds around her, Alice will have to answer for her own past, too.br>br>A richly imagined novel starring two indomitable heroines, i>The Paragon Hotel/i> at once plumbs the darkest parts of America's past and the most redemptive facets of humanity. From international-bestselling, multi-award-nominated writer Lyndsay Faye, it's a masterwork of historical suspense.
