May 27, 2021
Karen Heller
THE WASHINGTON POST – Wasn’t Stacey Abrams a bit too busy helping Joe Biden get elected, turning out the Democratic vote everywhere, helping flip her state of Georgia blue and then the United States (US) Senate, plus tending to her three organisations to produce, of all things, her first political thriller, set in Washington, DC, a city where, according to her ever-evolving spreadsheet of life goals, she aspires to reside someday as president of the US?
While Justice Sleeps is Abrams’ second book to come out in less than a year, following the bestseller
Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America. It is also her first work of fiction to be published under Abrams’ name.
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In her new legal thriller, Stacey Abrams has deployed her professional backgrounds (lawyer, business owner, lawmaker, political candidate, voting-rights advocate) as well as her siblings' expertise and experiences (federal judge, evolutionary biologist, anthropologist, addiction, social work).
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Stacey Abrams’ WHILE JUSTICE SLEEPS, published today, Tuesday, May 11, by Doubleday, is our new Igloo Book Buzz selection. The celebrated national political leader, voting-rights advocate, and bestselling author has written a gripping, complexly plotted thriller set within the halls of the U.S. Supreme Court. Author Scott Turow offered advance praise: “Stacey Abrams is a true novelist, and WHILE JUSTICE SLEEPS is a first-class legal thriller, favorably compared to many of the best, starting with The Pelican Brief, which it brings to mind. It’s fast-paced and full of surprises a terrific read.”
Ms. Abrams shared, “A decade ago, I wrote the first draft of a novel that explored an intriguing aspect of American democracy – the lifetime appointments to the U.S. Supreme Court. As an avid consumer of legal suspense novels and political thrillers, I am excited to add my voice into the mix. Drawing on my own background as a lawyer and politician, WHILE JUSTICE SLEEPS weave