The Paragon Hotel

Resource Information

The work The Paragon Hotel represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Vancouver Public Library, Britannia Branch (Open with Limited Services). This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

The Paragon Hotel

Statement of responsibility

Lyndsay Faye

Creator

• Faye, Lyndsay

Author

• Faye, Lyndsay

Subject

• Historical thrillers
• Hotels -- Oregon | Portland -- Fiction
• Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) -- Fiction
• Missing children -- Investigation -- Fiction
• Nineteen twenties -- Fiction
• Alcohol trafficking -- Fiction
• Race relations -- Fiction
• Runaway women -- Fiction
• Portland (Or.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
• Electronic books

Genre

• Historical thrillers
• Fiction
• Electronic books

Language

eng

Summary

The year is 1921, and "Nobody" Alice James is on a cross-country train, carrying a bullet wound and fleeing for her life following an illicit drug and liquor deal gone horribly wrong. Desperate to get as far away as possible from New York City and those who want her dead, she has her sights set on Oregon: a distant frontier that seems the end of the line. She befriends Max, a black Pullman porter who reminds her achingly of Harlem, who leads Alice to the Paragon Hotel upon arrival in Portland. Her unlikely sanctuary turns out to be the only all-black hotel in the city, and its lodgers seem unduly terrified of a white woman on the premises. But as she meets the churlish Dr. Pendleton, the stately Mavereen, and the unforgettable club chanteuse Blossom Fontaine, she begins to understand the reason for their dread. The Ku Klux Klan has arrived in Portland in fearful numbers, burning crosses, inciting violence, electing officials, and brutalizing blacks. And only Alice, along with her new "family" of Paragon residents, are willing to search for a missing mulatto child who has mysteriously vanished into the Oregon woods. Why was "Nobody" Alice James forced to escape Harlem? Why do the Paragon's denizens live in fear, and what other sins are they hiding? Where did the orphaned child who went missing from the hotel, Davy Lee, come from in the first place? And, perhaps most important, why does Blossom DuBois seem to be at the very center of this tangled web?

Cataloging source

B@L

Dewey number

813/.6

Index

no index present

LC call number

PS3606.A96

LC item number

P37 2019

Literary form

novels

Nature of contents

dictionaries