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Book Review of Catherine Carmier (Vintage Contemporaries)

Catherine Carmier (Vintage Contemporaries)
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Another great novel of the bigotry in Louisianas 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.