![]() ![]() The ideals that animated the Justice Committee feel long gone: after his dream of making “more theoretical” maps that would chart not just space but “actual corridors of power” failed, Johnny turned to facilitating burglaries using his blueprints. He sets out on a whirlwind tour of the state to dig up all the secret caches of money he’d planted decades earlier, when the Justice Committee-the organization he founded with similarly gifted family members and friends to protect black activists in the ’60s-was dissolving. ![]() Johnny Ribkins-a 72-year-old with an uncanny talent for making maps of any place, whether he’s ever seen it or not-has five days to pay a debt to a Florida crime boss. ![]() Blending the superhuman with the civil rights movement, this debut novel is an ambitious, if uneven, attempt to explore new dimensions of the struggle for racial justice. ![]()
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