Book

Mecca / Susan Straight.

ISBN: 9780374604516
ISBN: 0374604517
Physical Description: 370 pages ; 22 cm.
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.

Summary:

"A California epic following several native, diverse Californians grasping for air in a world that continues to marginalize them"-- Provided by publisher.

Johnny Frías has California in his blood. A descendant of the state's Indigenous people and Mexican settlers, he has Southern California's forgotten towns and canyons in his soul. He spends his days as a highway patrolman pulling over speeders, ignoring their racist insults, and pushing past the trauma of his rookie year, when he killed a man assaulting a young woman named Bunny, who ran from the scene, leaving Johnny without a witness. But like the Santa Ana winds that every year bring the risk of fire, Johnny's moment of action twenty years ago sparked a slow-burning chain of connections that unites a vibrant, complex cast of characters in ways they never see coming.