The series is timely, given the racial protests that have broken out across the US this spring after the killing of Black men and women at the hands of police officers this year. Vance), across the country to find him, encountering strange monsters and racism along the way. When he gets a letter from him inviting him to Arham MA, he sets off with his friend, Leti (Jumee Smollett) and his uncle George (Courtney B. Set in the 1950s, Lovecraft Country follows Atticus Freedman (Jonathan Majors), a veteran of the Korean War, who returns home to Chicago after his father vanishes. One of those books didn’t age all that well (but it’s a fine thriller), and the other just became a huge HBO series. Winters’ Underground Airlines, a novel that imagined what the US would have looked like if the Civil War came to a stalemate and was never resolved, and Matt Ruff’s Lovecraft Country, about a Black Korean War veteran who goes on a road trip across the US to uncover some family secrets. Back in 2016, I read two similar novels that tackled race in America: one was Ben H.
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