Out of the Easy

DAG YO THIS BOOK WAS GOOD AS HELL

That's my immediate response? I had a hard time putting it down. SUCH a good mix of great setting (NOLA's French Quarter in the 50s) and characters and plot. The protagonist, Josie, is the daughter of a prostitute but basically raised by Willie, the madam of the house where her mother works, as well as by the other prostitutes. (Josie's mother isn't really the parenting type). Josie is so strong and clever (even if she doesn't quite have everything figured out), and I love all the complexity given to all the secondary characters. Gender/sexuality/class/race are all handled so, so smartly.

I just... IDEK if this is a mystery, really? But suspenseful, and, just, ugh, SO GREAT.

Also I wanna go back to NOLA like, yesterday.