What the River Washed Away - Softcover

Macleod, Muriel Mharie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1780742347 ISBN 13: 9781780742342

Publisher: Oneworld Publications, 2013

Synopsis

Inspired by real-life events, this is the remarkable and uncompromising story of one young woman's refusal to accept her fate in 1920s Louisiana Jobs and Jesus from the big town don't ever seem to make it out here. Not down through the hackberry woods to the shack where I live with my Mambo. Not now Pappy's gone. No, here's where the old ways squat, where devil's work heals and some say harms. That don't mean the big town don't visit though - white folks with their shirt sleeves, liquor stink, and nasty ways. More dark in them than even Mambo can hold off. But I got me a friend now, fierce and vengeful, and we got a powerful secret that's gonna change everything.

About this title

Review:

“A spellbinding novel”
Marlon James, author of The Book of Night Women

“Stunning... a heart-wrenching tale that speaks to you long after the last page is turned”
Maureen Lindley, author of The Private Papers of Eastern Jewel

“An inspiring story which will haunt you long after you have read the final pages”
New Internationalist

Book Description:

I ain’t know nothing except he’s a bad man Mambo.’

About this edition

• Publisher: Oneworld Publications
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1780742347
• ISBN 13: 9781780742342
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288