Atlanta Noir, Tayari Jones
Atlanta Noir, Tayari Jones
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Atlanta Noir

Author: Tayari Jones

Narrator: Bahni Turpin, Ron Butler

Unabridged: 8 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/24/2018


Synopsis

Atlanta itself is a crime scene. After all, Georgia was founded as a de facto penal colony and in 1864, Sherman burned the city to the ground. We might argue about whether the arson was the crime or the response to the crime, but this is indisputable: Atlanta is a city sewn from the ashes and everything that grows here is at once fertilized and corrupted by the past . . .

These stories do not necessarily conform to the traditional expectations of noir . . . However, they all share the quality of exposing the rot underneath the scent of magnolia and pine. Noir, in my opinion, is more a question of tone than content. The moral universe of the story is as significant as the physical space. Noir is a realm where the good guys seldom win; perhaps they hardly exist at all. Few bad deeds go unrewarded, and good intentions are not the road to hell, but are hell itself . . . Welcome to Atlanta Noir. Come sit on the veranda, or the terrace of a high-rise condo. Pour yourself a glass of sweet tea, and fortify it with a slug of bourbon. Put your feet up. Enjoy these stories, and watch your back.

Contains mature themes.

About Tayari Jones

Tayari Jones is the author of Silver Sparrow, The Untelling, and Leaving Atlanta. Jones holds degrees from Spelman College, Arizona State University, and the University of Iowa. She serves on the MFA faculty at Rutgers and blogs on writing at tayarijones.com. She lives in Brooklyn.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Armand on December 04, 2022

Loved it. The stories are very different from one another, and the characters are all well-defined. The noir is dark and gritty, which I love. I would recommend this book (and others in the series)......more

Goodreads review by Tonstant on July 07, 2017

If you have followed my reviews, you know I love the Akashic Noir series and have followed the series for years. I have rows of Akashic Noir books that are ripe for re-reading because short stories work that way, you can read them again and again, enjoying them as much as when they were new. The new......more

Goodreads review by Jamie on November 16, 2017

Akashic Books has a lot of Noir collections set in different places, and while I usually reach for the collections set outside the US, Tayari Jones is the author of one of my favorite novels ever (Silver Sparrow) so I had to read this collection. It opens with a short story by Tananarive Due (anothe......more