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<\/a>Easy Rawlins back from the dead? No, that\u2019s not quite right. How about Easy Rawlins survives his creator\u2019s effort to knock him off. About six years ago, Walter Mosley moved to a new publisher, along with his new Manhattan private eye. Before he left the West Coast, he sent Easy hurtling over a cliff in what seemed to be a flaming finale. Apparently, however, you can\u2019t keep a good man, or a good series, down.<\/p>\nIn this welcome return, Easy\u2019s alter ego, the killer Mouse, brings his friend\u00a0up the cliff and delivers him to his \u201cfamily\u201d of \u00a0adopted children. The\u00a0backwoods alchemist Mama Jo gives him a case of her Gator\u2019s Blood to get his juju going, and Mouse gives him a case to get back in the swing of things. A\u00a0 young man nicknamed Little Green has disappeared, his mama is in despair, and Mouse plays dumb about why he wants Easy to take the case. Easy sets off into the late sixties L.A. he knows so well to find the boy.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not the same place, however. The hippies have arrived, \u201c\u2026runaways,\u00a0throwaways, and some no-way-at-all youngsters traveling in the company of older hipsters \u2026 like a primal purgatory where transient human spirits stopped to party until the final decision was laid upon their brows.\u201d<\/p>\n
And Easy isn\u2019t the same man: \u201cI had died and there was nothing that anyone could do to match the experience of my semi resurrection.\u201d Looking at life in this new light, Easy shows us how Chandler\u2019s mean streets have turned into high streets. Apparently the boy dropped some acid in defiance of his mama, and got mixed up with some bad guys and big money.<\/p>\n
As Easy gets stronger and closer to the solution, he stuns us with the plight of the black man in a white world, peace and love notwithstanding. He pauses in the midst of a confrontation to share this insight, worthy of Richard Wright: \u201cBut our true inheritance was the fear of being noticed, and worry about everything from rain collapsing the walls around us to a casual glance that might lead to lynching. We \u2013 almost every black man, woman and child in America \u2013 inherited anxieties like others received red hair or blue eyes.\u201d<\/p>\n
As always, Easy dispenses some appropriate justice that doesn\u2019t have anything to do with the police or the courts. He may not be the young man \u201crunning into the yard behind Ruby, looking for that sweet oblivion that all young men thought could save them from the greater darkness that dogged their heels,\u201d and he may be wearing \u201c\u2026Death on my shoulders like a superhero\u2019s cape,\u201d but he\u2019s still the best darn black private eye in L.A. Heck, he\u2019s the only black private eye in L.A., and it\u2019s good to have him back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
What a happy day it is when a favorite author resurrects a series hero who was believed to be dead! Bob Moyer takes a look at the resurrected Easy Rawlins. Reviewed by Robert P. Moyer LITTLE GREEN. By Walter Mosley. Doubleday. 291 pages. $25.95. Easy Rawlins back from the dead? No, that\u2019s not quite right. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[509,79],"class_list":["post-1252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mysteries","tag-easy-rawlins","tag-walter-mosley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1254,"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252\/revisions\/1254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}