Description

Bayou is Pamela Jekels masterpiece of the deep Southern delta country hailed as Best Historic Fiction by Library Journal a New York Times bestseller and a Waldenbooks bestseller From the Cajun swamp cabins to the great river plantations of the Mississippi and the glittering night spots of Jazz Age New Orleans Bayou sweeps readers into the mysterious and fascinating Louisiana delta and into the hearts and lives of four indomitable women Olivia a headstrong Cajun beauty Celisma a fiercely loyal mulatto slave Manon the toast of New Orleans and Zoe a conventbred Creole who seeks and finds her destiny on her own terms Jekel brings the sultry delta alive with rich historical detail a glittering mirage of Louisiana cockfights and duels Mardi Gras opulent plantations and sleazy Big Easy bordellos jazz clubs and steamboats and voodoo queens in this lushly fertile Eden Spanning a hundred and fifty years of a land under ten different flags Bayou is cotton and the War of 1812 sugar cane and the Civil War and moonshine and World War I Bayou is four generations of cultural clashes in a violent and seductive world at once exotic and uniquely American a way of life that will never be seen again