![]() 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. She befriends Max, a Black Pullman porter who reminds her achingly of home and who saves Alice by leading her to the Paragon Hotel.īut 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. ![]() 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 50,000 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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