And only Alice and her new Paragon "family" are searching for a missing mulatto child who has mysteriously vanished into the woods. The Ku Klux Klan has arrived in Portland in fearful numbers-burning crosses, electing officials, infiltrating newspapers, and brutalizing blacks. Pendleton, the stately Mavereen, and the club chanteuse Blossom Fontaine, she understands their dread. But her unlikely sanctuary turns out to be an all-black hotel in a Jim Crow city, and its lodgers seem unduly terrified of a white woman on the premises.Īs she meets the churlish Dr. She befriends Max, a black Pullman porter who reminds her achingly of home and who saves Alice by leading her to the Paragon Hotel. The year is 1921, and "Nobody" Alice James has just arrived in Oregon with a bullet wound, a lifetime's experience battling the New York Mafia, and fifty thousand dollars in illicit cash. A gun moll with a knack for disappearing flees from Prohibition-era Harlem to Portland's Paragon Hotel.
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