![]() ![]() ![]() Rather, he was a not-all-bad kid who gets trapped in a system rigged against him and makes “good” - leaving juvie to ultimately become a lawyer. Better known as Dre, he’s a bad boy made good - sort of. One of Wright’s writing mentors, the best-selling author and former UW-Madison professor Lorrie Moore, called his debut “a kind of national tragicomedy of manners,” in a jacket blurb that goes on to call the novel “part news, part satire.” The book reads like a mystery, but the suspense isn’t in the past (whodunnit?) it’s in the future - the linchpin of all the best stories, what’s going to happen?Īndre Ross, the protagonist of the book, is, like Wright, a lawyer. Yet the novel never gets stranded in the political-wonk weeds. The novelist is also a lawyer who worked for the Justice Department from 2008-2012 investigating voting rights cases. It’s a subject Wright knows plenty about. And as political operators nationwide continue to spread misinformation and exploit loopholes to manipulate elections, it’s only become more timely since its publication. It might better be described as a politically savvy exploration of the current state of electoral shenanigans in the U.S. The book’s not strictly classifiable as a legal thriller - there is no courtroom drama, no big 11th-hour save. There’s no such thing as a safe path in Steven Wright’s debut novel, 2020’s The Coyotes of Carthage. ![]() Steven Wright in a black jacket and shirt with a red tie. ![]()
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