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GREEN SUN
Oakland, California, 1982: One good cop against the world.
Before Hanson arrived in Oakland in the winter of 1982, he had already seen some of the worst of humanity on a tour of duty in Vietnam and a stint in the Portland, Oregon police department. And then he moves to California to join the under-funded, understaffed Oakland police force.
Unlike nearly all of his fellow officers, Hanson deliberately chooses to livealonein the precinct that he patrols; he, unlike the rest of the white OPD, takes seriously his duty to serve and protect the black community of East Oakland.
In forty-plus episodic chapters, we follow Hanson as he befriends a young boy, embarks on a romantic relationship, and tries to stay on a notorious drug dealer's good side, all while struggling to stay a good cop despite the violent and hateful forces threatening him from all sides.
Less a police procedural than a look at day-to-day cop life, GREEN SUN really kicks into gear in its third act, when the different strands that Hanson keeps meticulously separate become suddenly, dangerously entangled.
In this riveting novel, Kent Anderson captures the specific, quotidian details of Hanson's world so that a 21st-century reader will find the time, the place, and the man himself, feel both foreign and familiar. This is what readers, including James Patterson, have always loved about his books.
Furthermore, GREEN SUN is bracingly relevant, to both the political and cultural moment we're currently living in: Hanson is a white cop meeting black civilians not as antagonists, but as allies against his becoming the type of cop that he hates most. This is a novel that is tremendously full of heart and sincerity, but without being heartwarmingpossibly because the author himself has lived through much of what he describes.
Kent Anderson is a U.S. Special Forces veteran who served in Vietnam, a former police officer in Portland and Oakland, and a screenwriter. He has an MFA in creative writing from the University of Montana, and has taught college-level English. He is the author of two previous Hanson novels, SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL first published in 1987 and the New York Times Notable Book NIGHT DOGS in the mid 1990s. He may be the only person in U.S. history to have won two NEA grants for creative writing as well as two Bronze Stars. He lives in New Mexico.
Unlike nearly all of his fellow officers, Hanson deliberately chooses to livealonein the precinct that he patrols; he, unlike the rest of the white OPD, takes seriously his duty to serve and protect the black community of East Oakland.
In forty-plus episodic chapters, we follow Hanson as he befriends a young boy, embarks on a romantic relationship, and tries to stay on a notorious drug dealer's good side, all while struggling to stay a good cop despite the violent and hateful forces threatening him from all sides.
Less a police procedural than a look at day-to-day cop life, GREEN SUN really kicks into gear in its third act, when the different strands that Hanson keeps meticulously separate become suddenly, dangerously entangled.
In this riveting novel, Kent Anderson captures the specific, quotidian details of Hanson's world so that a 21st-century reader will find the time, the place, and the man himself, feel both foreign and familiar. This is what readers, including James Patterson, have always loved about his books.
Furthermore, GREEN SUN is bracingly relevant, to both the political and cultural moment we're currently living in: Hanson is a white cop meeting black civilians not as antagonists, but as allies against his becoming the type of cop that he hates most. This is a novel that is tremendously full of heart and sincerity, but without being heartwarmingpossibly because the author himself has lived through much of what he describes.
Kent Anderson is a U.S. Special Forces veteran who served in Vietnam, a former police officer in Portland and Oakland, and a screenwriter. He has an MFA in creative writing from the University of Montana, and has taught college-level English. He is the author of two previous Hanson novels, SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL first published in 1987 and the New York Times Notable Book NIGHT DOGS in the mid 1990s. He may be the only person in U.S. history to have won two NEA grants for creative writing as well as two Bronze Stars. He lives in New Mexico.
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