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The King's Hyacinth

The King's Hyacinth

Morrow, Cade

Paperback

General GLBTQIA FictionHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN13: 9798189986710
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 31 2026
Pages: 236
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.59 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The King's Hyacinth is a standalone work of literary historical fiction set in French colonial Louisiana, from the antechambers of the Ministry of the Marine in 1697 to the Gulf Coast the French were only beginning to build, and forward across the first half of the eighteenth century. Its narrator, Florent, is invented. Its central figure is not: Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville founded Mobile and New Orleans, governed the colony on and off for some thirty-six years, and died having named a great deal for other men and kept nothing for himself.

The novel occupies the silence the historical record leaves around Bienville's private life. It does not fill that silence with certainty. Florent spends a lifetime trying to read a man who cannot be read, and is wrong as often as he is right, and the book lets him be wrong. Around that unanswerable center it builds a fully realized world: the brutal founding years, the diplomacy and the violence, the Code Noir and the enslavement the colony was built on, which the novel refuses to soften or to make beautiful. It is a love story told in the register of things that happen over decades, and a serious reckoning with what the official record costs the private one.

Written for adult readers and for anyone who has waited for the Southern literary tradition to turn toward stories of men in love with men, The King's Hyacinth carries Cade Morrow's territory back three centuries, to the French colonial root of the same Gulf Coast his other novels walk.

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