Afterworld

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A multi-layered, multi-generational saga set in Louisiana in the days before Hurricane Katrina, and in a place called Afterworld. For the Duvalier family, sugar cane is both their blessing and their curse. Their story is rich, tragic and funny. It steams and heaves with sugar, sex, drink, deviance and depravity.

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"Walden's proficiency with theater and libretto inform her prose. You can see the scenes on a mental stage, hear the harmonies and dissonant notes in the story's grand sweep of decades and generations and lifetimes." -- Chronogram "Chronogram"

Author Bio

Lois Walden is a writer, performer, lyricist, teaching artist, and founder of the star-studded gospel group The Sisters of Glory. In 2010 Arcadia published her strong debut novel One More Stop. Her latest is a hugely imaginative tour of Louisiana and its corrupt beauty, and seductive secrets along with a vision that carries through life, death, and back again. Most recently, she has been commissioned to write the Buddhist opera, Mila and is at work on her third novel.