![]() ![]() But after Blonde Faith, the 11th book, Mosley was stuck. By Little Scarlet, the ninth book, Easy has become a private eye, and the Watts riots have reduced his old neighborhood to ash. The novels move from the pre-civil rights era to the late '60s, when Easy has a steady day job but still occupies much of his time seeking answers for people who can't or won't go to the police. ![]() "Many, many things change from '48 to '68 in Los Angeles, particularly in terms of race relations, racial culture, racial divisions, etc., which are at the essence of what the Rawlins books are tracing." ![]() Ulin says the books span a critical period in the city's evolution. Those stories helped shape the Easy novels and enabled Mosley to paint a vivid portrait of LA's evolving black community. As a boy, Mosley listened to his father and his father's friends talk over backyard beers about politics, music and finessing the city's notoriously racist police. ![]()
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