Oyster Author:John Biguenet It's the mid-1950's and the Petitjeans and the Bruneaus have farmed oysters in Louisiana for hundreds of years. Bitter rivals, the two families struggle to survive, their boats mortgaged to the next harvest, their grievances passed down to their children. Now the oyster beds are threatened - and with them both families' livelihoods. The solut... more »ion is a marriage between the headstrong young Therese Petitjean and Horse, the brutal patriarch of the Bruneau clan. But then a body is trawled in with the shrimp, and so begins a cyle of revenge that can only end one way.....« less
these two families,toil without a margin,their boats mortgaged untilthe next harvest of shrimp and oysters..their emotions soured by the greivances passed down through their children..