taralovesbooks’ #CBR4 Review #44: Freedomland by Richard Price
Cannonball Read IV: Book #44/52
Published: 1998
Pages: 736
Genre: Crime/Thriller
A friend recommended this book to me years ago, but I never got around to picking it up. I found it in a used book store a few weeks ago and decided to give it a try.
The premise is pretty simple for such a long book: A white woman (Brenda) wanders into an emergency room with bloody hands saying that she was carjacked by a black man in a mostly black neighborhood. Then she tells the cops that her four-year-old son was in the back of the car. This sets off a long string of events that causes a huge racial conflict between the black neighborhood (Dempsey) and the neighboring white town (Gannon) that Brenda lives in (and her brother is a cop in).
Cannonball Read IV 