Away from her friends, and her dad (her parents are newly separated) her life is made worse by the fact that she is virtually device free, due to parental and monetary decisions. Twelve-year-old Candice Miller and her mother are spending the summer in Lambert, South Carolina, in the home owned by her recently deceased grandmother. It's important, especially if you are an aspiring writer, to be reminded that writing is work, hard work, with many, many revisions. It's easy to read a remarkably well written book and think that it entered the world complete and with little effort. I finished the book, completely in awe of Johnson and what he had accomplished, then went back and read the evolution and was grateful to be reminded of the hard, hard work, the many revisions and the many voices (editor, agent) that went into crafting this masterpiece. How Johnson makes all this work together, powerfully and unforgettably, is amazing and I especially appreciate the After Words in the back matter where Johnson shares the evolution of the first chapter of the book. The mystery of The Parker Inheritance is informed and inspired by (the shadowy character in the book who crafts this chain of clues left for a specific set of players confesses that this book was a favorite of an important person in his life) Ellen Raskin's classic and my childhood favorite, The Westing Game. The Parker Inheritance is a masterfully written mystery with civil rights, racism, segregation, discrimination, the realities of being black in America, in the past and present, and justice at its heart.
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