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Catherine Carmier - Vintage Contemporaries Author: By the author of A Lesson Before Dying and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Catherine Carmier is a compelling love story set in a deceptively bucolic Louisiana countryside, where blacks, Cajuns, and whites maintain an uneasy coexistence. — After living in San Francisco for ten years, Jackson returns home to his benefactor, Aunt Charlotte. ... more »
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Another great novel of the bigotry in Louisiana’s Cajun parishes, this might be subtitled “You Should Not Go Home Again.” Intolerance is not limited to whites against blacks; in his world it is near white against mulatto against black, and Cajun against all. Here are star-crossed lovers to rival Shakespeare; doomed to separation; torn by loyalty to family.
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- Literature & Fiction >> World Literature >> United States >> African American >> Gaines, Ernest
- Literature & Fiction >> General >> Classics
- Literature & Fiction >> General >> Contemporary