Guide Me Home

by Attica Locke

Guide Me Home is the final book in Attica Locke’s trilogy featuring Darren Mathews, a Texas Ranger who happens to be Black. (You don’t need to read the first two books in the trilogy—the award-winning Bluebird, Bluebird and Heaven, My Home—but you’ll probably want to). The novel opens in the Pine Curtain in East Texas and really evokes the places near Highway 59 in Texas, where the action takes place, as well as the feelings as Mathews struggles with alcohol, his relationship with his mother, and what it means to be Black in America. The plot focuses on a student who goes missing from a sorority house at the local university.