Catherine CarmierA compelling debut love story set in a deceptively bucolic Louisiana countryside, where blacks, Cajuns, and whites maintain an uneasy coexistence--by the award-winning author of A Lesson Before Dying and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. After living in San Francisco for ten years, Jackson returns home to his benefactor, Aunt Charlotte. Surrounded by family and old friends, he discovers that his bonds to them have been irreparably rent by his absence. In the midst of his alienation from those around him, he falls in love with Catherine Carmier, setting the stage for conflicts and confrontations which are complex, tortuous, and universal in their implications. |
Contents
Section 14 | 121 |
Section 15 | 126 |
Section 16 | 131 |
Section 17 | 136 |
Section 18 | 150 |
Section 19 | 161 |
Section 20 | 197 |
Section 21 | 203 |
Section 9 | 71 |
Section 10 | 86 |
Section 11 | 96 |
Section 12 | 105 |
Section 13 | 118 |
Section 22 | 223 |
Section 23 | 231 |
Section 24 | 236 |
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