louisiana

Ten stories trace the connections between four generations of one Louisiana family from 1939 when a young girl leaves school to help support her family to 2006 when an eighty-year-old woman embarks on a book tour.

After losing everything in a Florida hurricane, seventeen-year-old Miranda and her mother move to her grandfather's home in Louisiana, where she falls in with an interesting group of students, and discovers that she can communicate with spirits like her grandfather did.

Sayre Lynch returns to her hometown for the funeral of her brother, Danny, who supposedly committed suicide, and finds herself embroiled in a mystery surrounding her tyrannical father who owns the town's only industry, her older brother, a corrupt lawyer, and the deputy sheriff who has his doubts about Danny's suicide.

Presents an overview of the life and work of Louisiana author George Washington Cable, discussing the themes and interests that characterize his writing, and includes a chronology, notes, and selected bibliography.

Laura's daughter Elizabeth runs away after a terrible argument, and as she waits for Elizabeth's return, Laura begins to write a letter sharing the secrets of her troubled adolescence and the meaning of the enigmatic tattoo on her right hip.

Uncertain of where she really belongs, thirteen-year-old Nissa leaves her Louisiana home where she lives with her father and new stepmother and goes to stay with her eccentric mother in Chicago.