The western novel, which is in stores March 21, is the latest from the author of ‘The Changeling’ and follows a young Black woman who flees to Montana.
The new novel by Victor LaValle begins in Southern California — and its inspiration started in the Golden State, too.
The town of Big Sandy is a real place and boasts a population of about 600. In a telephone conversation from his home in New York, LaValle said he might never have heard of it had it not been for a road trip he took when he was preparing to leave Oakland, where he lived for two years as a visiting professor at Mills College.
One title caught his eye: “Montana Women Homesteaders: A Field of One’s Own,” edited by Sarah Carter. “The book is great,” he says. “It’s got excerpts from people’s journals and a lot of historical research. It’s a blend of all these things. And I became fascinated with these women, and impressed by them.”
“She’s like my mother and grandmother, who came from Uganda to New York,” he says. “They had absolutely no connections. They were, by and large, some of the first Ugandans to be living in New York. That kind of boldness and bravery was something I started pouring into Adelaide, as a way for me to love her, to admire her.”
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