The story places much emphasis on the pursuit of justice, community interrelationships, and the essence of building coalitions. In this task, she is joined with James Lanier, a cousin to Curtis Martindale, one of the victims. This prompts Jackie to engage in the arduous task of piecing together information to unravel the people and motivations for these murders. The murders were never reported hence they had not been solved all these years. In the pursuit of fulfilling the will's demands, Jackie discovers that Curtis is long dead and he along with other 3 teenage boys black descent were frozen to death in the freezer of the store during the 1965 Watt’s riots. Jackie meets James Lanier, Curtis cousin who tells her that Curtis was an employee at the Frank’s grocery store. Jackie is given the task of finding who this mysterious beneficiary of this will is.
The beneficiary of the money is a mysterious person called Curtis Martindale as per the stipulations in the will.
At the beginning of the novel, Jackie’s aunt Lois discovers money totaling $38,000 in the closet that belonged to Frank. Her grandfather, a Second World War veteran, owned a grocery store in the racial mixed neighborhood of Crenshaw District. During her last semester of law school, her grandfather, Frank Sakai, breathes her last in unexpected circumstances. It is a story about Jackie Ishida, a young Japanese-American woman who is getting acquainted with her sexuality, rediscovering her cultural heritage, and focused on unearthing the skeletons that occupy her family’s past. In Southland, Nina Revoyr writes a fascinating story of murder, race, history, and murder in Los Angeles.
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