Freedomland
Categories: Literature & Fiction
Freedomland is a 1998 novel by Richard Price, author of Clockers and a writer for HBO's The Wire. It was adapted into a 2006 film starring Samuel L. Jackson and Julianne Moore. Brenda Martin, a white woman, stumbles into a hospital in New Jersey claiming that a Black man carjacked her with her four-year-old son asleep in the back seat. The search for the boy sets off racial tension in a housing project, and detective Lorenzo Council and a reporter try to find the truth.
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