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Randall Luce book launch/reading/signing
Thu, Jul 24
|Eugene
Meet author Randall Luce, author of Black & Tan Fantasy, his his gripping new novel set during the turbulent—and often violent—nascent civil rights movement deep in the Mississippi Delta.
Time & Location
Jul 24, 2025, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Eugene, 1685 W 13th Ave, Eugene, OR 97402, USA
About the event
Randall Luce, who holds a degree in cultural anthropology and did field work in the Mississippi Delta, saw the first Black man elected in his county since Reconstruction. He witnessed famine in Africa and bombs falling in Eritrea while working for private aid organizations in developing countries. He has worked at a homeless shelter, taught anthropology to college students, and written novels at night while working for a law firm. He is the author of Motherless Children and Smokestack Lightning.
A Booklife Editor's Pick—Black & Tan Fantasy is a crucial historical novel of American race, identity, and the cost of belonging.
"Luce traverses the haunted terrain of the segregated American South with historical precision, interrogating the complex construction of racial identity and the binary ways—violence and nonviolence—people are driven to pursue justice . . . a weighty read, one that carries a profound message: belonging in a white man's world is…