THE CUTTING SEASON by Attica Locke ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 18, 2012 A lush plantation is the scene of what could be the perfect murder. How does this small event foreshadow the events that unfold? A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality study guides that feature detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, quotes, and essay topics. Family and the past play a major role in THE CUTTING SEASON. The novel opens with a startling scene: "It was during the Thompson-Delacroix wedding, Caren's first day on the job, that a cottonmouth, measuring the length of a Cadillac, fell some twenty feet from a live oak on the lawn." Now Locke returns with The Cutting Season, a riveting thriller that intertwines two murders separated across more than a century. The Cutting Season is a novel by Attica Locke, published on September 18, 2012 by … Caren Gray manages Belle Vie, a sprawling antebellum plantation that sits between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, where … I loved the descriptions of Belle Vie, a deep south Louisiana plantation where they still sponsor re-enactments of antebellum life daily. Among the summaries and analysis available for The Cutting Season, there are 1 Short Summary and 8 Book Reviews. 2. Depending on the study guide provider (SparkNotes, Shmoop, etc. Taut, hauntingly resonant, and beautifully written, The Cutting Season is at once a thoughtful meditation on how America reckons its past with its future and a high-octane page-turner that unfolds with tremendous skill and vision, demonstrating once again that … ), the resources below will generally offer The Cutting Season chapter summaries, quotes, and analysis of themes, characters, and symbols. As manager of Belle Vie, an antebellum estate 50 miles south of Baton Rouge and an equal distance from New Orleans to the east, Caren Gray burns the candle at both ends. A story about the American South's shameful history and how the crimes of the past ring in the present, The Cutting Season was presented to me as a mystery/trhiller, but it reads more like a contemporary novel that explores the history of black culture in a subtle way, woven between the murder of a migrant worker in a cane-cutting operation. The Cutting Season is set in the fictitious Belle Vie plantation, where the magnificent antebellum … Detailed plot synopsis reviews of The Cutting Season This is a suspenseful novel and the writer does a great job of holding this suspense for 3/4's of the novel. There is, literally, a snake in the garden of Eden.