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Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery

Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery

Brown, John Gregory

Paperback

Series: Southern Revivals

Literary Fiction

ISBN10: 1643360183
ISBN13: 9781643360188
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: May 7 2019
Pages: 262
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.59 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

John Gregory Brown's debut novel examines family, race, and faith in a heartbreaking tale of identity, devotion, and regret. The story centers on the Eagen family of New Orleans, Irish Catholics of mixed blood in a city where race defines destiny. In 1965 Thomas Eagen and his twelve-years-old twins, Meredith and Lowell, abruptly drive off, leaving his second wife, Catherine, and their home. As they cross Lake Pontchartrain, a section of the bridge collapses, injuring Murphy Warrington, an African American man who once worked for Thomas's father. Murphy becomes the catalyst for a series of revelations about Thomas's light-skinned black mother and the reasons she abandoned her husband and son when Thomas was an infant.

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