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April 16, 2013
April Weekly Reads March On - Blackwell Featured
Each week, Unbridled Books chooses a previously published title to feature an excerpt (usually the first chapter) on scribd.com. This week, the program continues with Elise Blackwell’s The Unnatural History of Cypress Parish.
Set in southern Louisiana in the weeks preceding the great flood of 1927, this novel depicts a place and way of life about to be forever changed. On the verge of manhood and a stone’s throw of the rising Mississippi River, Louis Proby is pulled between his love of the natural world and the glittering temptations of New Orleans, between the beautiful Nanette Lançon and a father who no longer seems larger-than-life, between the simplicity of childhood and the complicated decisions of adulthood.
Elise Blackwell is the author of three other novels: Hunger, Grub, and An Unfinished Score . Her books have been chosen for numerous “best of the year” lists and her short prose has be published in Witness, Topic, Seed, and other publications. Originally from southern Louisiana, she earned her MFA from the University of California-Irvine and is on the creative writing faculty of the University of South Carolina.
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