![]() ![]() All of the main players in the book have taken on new personas within the comforting womb of the movie business. Revoyr’s latest book, “The Age of Dreaming,” is something else altogether, as the novelist turns for the first time to Hollywood - specifically, the silent-film era - to excavate the question of race in the earliest days of Hollywood.Īn unsolved murder lies at the heart of the story, but the book is really a multilayered examination of how Hollywood has always welcomed the alien as an insider. In her three novels, she has traced the messy intersections of lives that have been transformed by the complications of cultural and racial identity. As an empathetic chronicler of the dispossessed outsider in L.A., Revoyr is endlessly fascinated by the ways in which Los Angeles has acted as both a lure and a repellent for those seeking a fresh start. This is not idle chitchat for Revoyr it’s an organizing principle for her art and life. I just love the idea of people finding a common stake in something larger than themselves.” You would see black families there designing Japanese gardens in their yards. “Historically, Compton’s had an organic blend of Japanese and African American culture. ![]() “Compton is a very romantic place for me,” said the novelist, who was eating brunch at Auntie Em’s, a hipster-magnet restaurant near her Eagle Rock home. But where some might view the city as an incubator of crime and poverty, Nina Revoyr sees a land of comity and cultural richness. ![]() YOU don’t hear folks touting the virtues of Compton too often. ![]()
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