Photo courtesy of Norman Edelen and used with permission.
Author Norman Edelen has seen Los Angeles change–and stay the same.
As a black police officer with the LAPD in the 1960s, he experienced the first days of the department’s integration. Coping with racism, risking his life and seeing tragedy on a regular basis, were all part of his workdays.
Norman, now an Emmy-winning television writer, offers readers an inside look at the LAPD of the 1960s and the 1990s in his new novel, After a While You Wonder. His protagonist, C.Q. Sanes, or “Q”, is a black police officer who begins his career with the LAPD in the 1960s. At the start of the book, Q has gathered with old friends–fellow officers from the unit in which he served–at a lunch in 1997, to reminisce about their experiences.
Norman talked about his experiences as an officer, the characters and events in After a While You Wonder, and the series for which this book is the prequel.
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