Providence Noir

Publisher Marketing: Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with "Brooklyn Noir." Each story is set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book. Featuring brand-new stories by: John Searles, Elizabeth Strout, Taylor M. Polites, Hester Kaplan, Robert Leuci, Amity Gaige, Peter Farrelly, Pablo Rodriguez, Bruce DeSilva, Marie Myung-Ok Lee, Luanne Rice, Dawn Raffel, Thomas Cobb, LaShonda Katrice Barnett, and Ann Hood. Anyone who has spent time in Providence, Rhode Island, knows that lurking in the shadows are many sinister noir elements and characters. The city is ripe for this volume, and Akashic is proud to have recruited the amazing Ann Hood as editor. The impressive contributor list conveys the caliber of "Providence Noir," which joins "Cape Cod Noir," "Boston Noir," and "Boston Noir 2: The Classics" in sketching a dark and alternative portrait of these New England locales. From the introduction by Ann Hood: " Providence was founded in 1636 by a rogue named Roger Williams. Williams escaped here when Massachusetts was ready to deport him back to England. In the almost four hundred years since, we ve become infamous for all sorts of crimes and misdemeanors, including serving as home base for the Patriarca crime family for decades. My very own Uncle Eddie I can hear Mama Rose screaming at me: He wasn't a blood relative! He was related through marriage! was gunned down in the Silver Lake section of town in 1964, just a year after he drove me in his white Cadillac convertible in a parade as the newly crowned Little Miss Natick. The writer Geoffrey Wolff told me that once he went to a barber in Princeton, New Jersey, and the barber asked him where he was from. Providence, Wolff told him. The barber put down his scissors, raised his hands in the air, and said, Providence? Don't shoot! I ve asked fourteen of my favorite writers to contribute short stories to "Providence Noir." We have stories to make you shiver, stories to make you think, stories that will show you my beautiful, noirish city in a way it s never been highlighted before. "" Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 04/20/2015 (EAN 9781617753527, Paperback) Publishers Weekly 04/20/2015 pg. 56 (EAN 9781617753725, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Hood, Ann Ann Hood is the editor of Knitting Yarns: Writers on Knitting and the best-selling author of The Knitting Circle, The Red Thread, Comfort, and, most recently, An Italian Wife, among other works. She is the recipient of two Pushcart Prizes, a Best American Spiritual Writing Award, a Best American Food Writing Award, a Best American Travel Writing Award, and the Paul Bowles Prize for Short Fiction. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island. Contributor Bio:  Huber, Hillary Hillary Huber is a multiple Audie Award finalist, an AudioFile Earphones Award winner, and one of AudioFile's Best Voices of 2010 and 2011. She has recorded close to two hundred titles. Hillary splits her time between Santa Monica and New York.