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Stacey Abrams’ book
While Justice Sleeps will be headed to the small screen soon, and we couldn’t be more excited!
According to Variety, after a pretty competitive bidding war, NBCUniversal-backed producer
Working Title Television was able to snatch up the rights to Abrams’ new novel and plans to adapt it as a television series.
Politician Stacey Abrams speaks onstage during The Hollywood Reporter’s Power 100 Women in Entertainment at Milk Studios on December 11, 2019 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for The Hollywood Reporter)
Tuesday, the legal thriller, which follows a Supreme Court justice whose descent into a coma causes chaos not only in the court but also across the country, was published by Penguin Random House.
Rosalind Bentley, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Stacey Abrams latest novel, While Justice Sleeps, feels modern until the protagonist comes home from a horrendous day and listens to annoying then menacing voicemails â left on a landline, attached to an answering machine, that beeps in between calls.
Why did she make such an anachronistic choice for the fictional 26-year-old U.S. Supreme Court law clerk at the heart of this sprawling thriller about the race to unravel a multinational conspiracy and save the life of one of the justices? I keep a landline and an answering machine, Abrams, 47, said. I keep a landline because if your service goes out, a landline still works. And I actually have a non-digital phone attached to one of my landlines.
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