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The largest city in the ill-starred confederacy has fallen under the soon-to-be-infamous General Benjamin "the Beast" Butler. And when twelve-year-old Joseph Woolsack disappears from his home, he draws his mother, Elise—a mixed-race woman passing for white—into a dark new world.
Joseph grapples with his father's legacy of violence and his own growing sentiment for Cuban exile Marina Fandal, the only survivor of a shipwreck that claimed the lives of her parents. Meanwhile, Elise struggles to keep hold of her sanity, her son and her own precarious station. But she soon encounters a troubling figure from her past, a man who is deeply mired in the intrigue surrounding the city's occupation.
Alternating between the perspectives of five characters, Secessia weaves a tapestry of ravenous greed and malformed love, of slavery and desperation, set within the baroque melting-pot that is New Orleans. A Gothic tableaux vivant of epic scope and intimate horror, Secessia is the netherworld reflection of the conflict between north and south.
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February 22, 2023 -
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Kindle Book
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OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9780802191335
- File size: 2081 KB
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EPUB ebook
- ISBN: 9780802191335
- File size: 2432 KB
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Languages
- English
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