Magic Time

Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Doug Marlette takes another turn with fiction, following the success of his debut "The Bridge." "Magic Time" seamlessly blends historical fiction with the story of Carter Ransom who returns to the deepSouth to confront long repressed traumas. Reopening a long cold murder case involving a church bombing by a Ku Klux Klan member that took the life of Carter's first love, the narrative jumps between the New York City of the 1990s and the Freedom Summer of 1964. At once a powerful court room drama and unsentimental coming-of-age story, Carter's tale of finding identity and his struggles to win civil rights makes for an emotional resonant.