From the beloved author previously compared to Cormac McCarthy and Joyce Carol Oates (Washington Post), a startling and unconventional neon-pink Western of vengeance, family, and first love as two warring factions vie for control of a blood-soaked Gulf CoastIt’s 2026, and Rally is thirteen years old. The long, hot Louisiana summer looms before him like a face-melting stretch of blacktop, and the country is talking civil war while his adoptive family acts m...

La vie aventureuse et romanesque d'un jeune prédicateur sur la Frontière de Floride au début du XIXe siècle.Peu après l'Indépendance des États-Unis, le jeune Angel Woolsack grandit sous la férule d'un père prédicateur fanatique au sein d'une communauté misérable de l'Ohio. Samuel, le fils un peu plus âgé d'un autre religieux, devient comme son frère. Tous deux s'enfuient vers les marches de la Floride, sur la piste du grand frère de Samuel, Reuben, qui s'y serait fa...

Traduit de l’américain par Éric ChédailleCette histoire débute aux États-Unis, en 2026, dans un climat de quasi-guerre civile.Rally, 13 ans, enfant adopté, s’efforce d’en savoir plus sur la famille de son père. Des générations auparavant, les Woolsack avaient entrepris de se tailler un État sur les côtes marécageuses de la Floride.Désormais, Rally vit dans la culpabilité et la peur des seuls autres survivants : son oncle Rodney, tueur profe...

Plongée dans un monde saturé de couleurs. Un beau roman ambitieux qui mêle une histoire d'amour à la grande Histoire de l'Amérique.Sauvé de l'orphelinat par une famille bourgeoise et aimante, Isaac devient artiste peintre. Il se consacre à son art sur la côte sauvage de Floride dont la luxuriance le fascine.Un jour de 1914, tandis qu'il navigue dans la baie voisine, il rencontre Kemper, une héritière rebelle à la famille étouffante dont il tombe immédiatement...

The acclaimed author of The Blood of Heaven and Secessia "delivers a lyrical, emotionally charged study of life along the Gulf Coast a century past" ( Kirkus Reviews).In 1914, with the world on the brink of war, Isaac, a nature-loving artist whose past is mysterious to all, including himself, meets Kemper, a defiant heiress caught in the rivalry between her brothers. Kemper's older brother Angel is hiding a terrible secret about his sexual...

The acclaimed author of The Blood of Heaven shares "a vivid portrait of 1862 New Orleans" as Union soldiers take over in this panoramic Civil War novel (Ron Charles, Washington Post).The largest city in the ill-starred confederacy has fallen under the soon-to-be-infamous General Benjamin "the Beast" Butler. And when twelve-year-old Joseph Woolsack disappears from his home, he draws his mother, Elise—a mixed-race woman passing for white—into a dark...

"The work of a young writer with tremendous ambition, a bildungsroman of religion and revolution set during an obscure chapter of American history." — The Washington PostA powerful and impressive debut novel from the winner of the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival Prize for fiction—first in the Woolsack family saga that continues with Secessia and The New Inheritors.The Blood of Heaven

It is 1861, and Angel Woolsack is a Confederate about to breathe his last, as the Union forces make their inexorable approach. Rejected by his wife, his wealth no longer useful to him, he sets about recording his testament.His story is that of a preacher's son, who flees the hardscrabble life of his itinerant father and falls in with a charismatic highwayman. The novel moves from the bordellos of Natchez to the Mississippi plantations, and finally to the back rooms of New Orleans w...