Season of the Swamp Horror_Gift_Guide Through bitingly comic asides and

Through bitingly comic asides and wry observations

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Dust and Determination

and interweaves two main narratives

Season of the Swamp Horror_Gift_Guide Through bitingly comic asides andA major new novel set in nineteenth century New Orleans by the author of Signs Preceding the End of the World New Orleans, 1853. A young exile named Benito Jurez disembarks at a fetid port city at the edge of a swamp. Years later, he will become the first indigenous head of state in the postcolonial Americas, but now he is as anonymous and invisible as any other migrant to the roiling and alluring city of New Orleans. Accompanied by a small group of