“We brought our own food, cake. We had the boombox. My father was a young attorney, without a lot of money, so it was totally a do-it-yourself kind of party,” recalls the 35-year-old Houston native. “It was all fun and games until we heard this woman screaming. And then we heard gunshots. And there was this sense of ‘What do you do about that?’"
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Attica Locke
A childhood moment inspires a novel | Life | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle: "When she was about 11, Attica Locke’s family threw a birthday party for her stepmother on a barge on Buffalo Bayou.
“We brought our own food, cake. We had the boombox. My father was a young attorney, without a lot of money, so it was totally a do-it-yourself kind of party,” recalls the 35-year-old Houston native. “It was all fun and games until we heard this woman screaming. And then we heard gunshots. And there was this sense of ‘What do you do about that?’"
“We brought our own food, cake. We had the boombox. My father was a young attorney, without a lot of money, so it was totally a do-it-yourself kind of party,” recalls the 35-year-old Houston native. “It was all fun and games until we heard this woman screaming. And then we heard gunshots. And there was this sense of ‘What do you do about that?’"
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