Jo’s Pick of the Week: The Paragon Hotel by Lyndsay Faye
Lyndsay Faye tackles both the New York City mafia and Oregon’s infamous racist laws in her outstanding new 1920s thriller. The Paragon Hotel shines a light on a horrifying part of Oregon’s history, whose original constitution outlawed blacks from living or working in the state. When the novel opens in 1921, the Ku Klux Klan…