Heavenly Days Author:James Wilcox Tula Springs, Louisiana, first created by Wilcox two decades ago, is striving to find its foothold in a disarmingly modern world. So, for that matter, is Lou Jones--middle aged, sensitive, and gutsy--who lives in a $295,000 Cajun cabin and works as the receptionist at a fundamentalist health emporium in a defunct train station. It's the only... more » job in town that doesn't require computer literacy and she earns three times what the state college paid her for teaching music theory.
Soon the bemused Lou finds herself embroiled with the North American Bassoon Society, a gun-toting tax assessor, her maid's enigmatic polite-society mother, her laid-off husband's obsession with his childhood home, and the theft of a much-disputed ornate dresser.« less
Totally bizarre little book that veers from being a nutty Southern comedy to a surreal trip through the mnd of what may be a dying woman. Strange. Just strange.