Season (Marie Laveau Mysteries (Paperback)) - Softcover

Rhodes, Jewell Parker

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1451617062 ISBN 13: 9781451617061

Publisher: Washington Square Press, 2011

Synopsis

Paperback. Pub Date: 2011 Pages: 288 Publisher: Washington Square Press In Season (formerly titled Voodoo Season). Jewell Parker Rhodes revisits the sensual Magical landscape of her Highly acclaimed debut novel. Voodoo Dreams.Marie Levant raised in the North by foster parents. begins her medical residency in New Orlean's Charity Hospital. Plagued by deja vu and haunted by increasingly violent dreams. Marie tries to make a life in a city that seems both foreign and familiar.Without warning her world falls apart. for it is voodoo season: the season of heat. humidity. the West Nile virus. of unexplained deaths of young adults all with a mysterious symbol marked in red clay on their foreheads. It is the season of babies cut from their dead mother's wombs. It is the season when the Guede. the death gods. haunt Levant-whispering tales. sending memories and dreams of Marie Laveau. ...

About this title

Review:

"[The book's] world of sex, malevolence, the undead, and miraculous rescue is alluring." --Booklist

"Jewell Parker Rhodes revisits her rich, mysterious world of New Orleans. . . . Compelling and elegantly written."

--Tananarive Due, Essence bestselling author of Blood Colony

"Haunting and lyrical, [Season] draws us into the fascinating world of ghosts and spirits, and the people they watch over. Jewell Parker Rhodes has created a terrific character in Marie Levant: strong, sensual and vulnerable."

--Karen Siplin, critically-acclaimed author of Whiskey Road

"A masterful evocation of the decadence of the Big Easy of long ago. . . . Rhodes adds beguiling glimpses into another world of ghosts, zombies, spirit gods and ritual sacrifices. The result is a riveting read."

--Orlando Sentinel

"[Season] is a tantalizing brew of spirituality, sensuality, and old-fashioned good storytelling--a perfect novel for anyone who loves a strong mystery beautifully told. Another winner from this great writer!"

--Valerie Wilson Wesley, bestselling author of Of Blood and Sorrow

About the Author:

Jewell Parker Rhodes, an award-winning author of fiction and nonfiction, including Voodoo Dreams, Season (formerly titled Voodoo Season) Yellow Moon (formerly titled Yellow Moon), Magic City, Douglass' Women, Free Within Ourselves: Fiction Lessons for Black Authors, and The African American Guide to Writing and Publishing Nonfiction, is the Virginia G. Piper Chair in Creative Writing and artistic director of the Virginia G. Piper Center in Creative Writing at Arizona State University. She lives in Scottsdale, Arizona.

About this edition

• Publisher: Washington Square Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1451617062
• ISBN 13: 9781451617061
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288