A coming-of-age love story about a Cajun girl who wants out of the small town. It depicts Cajun lifestyle as it really was in the 1950s.
Jacquelyn Champagne is eighteen years old in July of 1953, and can’t wait to leave her tiny south Louisiana hometown. Unlike other girls her age, she dreams of independence rather than becoming a brood mare for some dumb-ass Cajun who will “rule the roost.” She wants MORE…of everything!
After surviving sexual assault at an early age and stalking at college, she accepts a job in New York City, already in love with a man from lower Lafourche who wants to live in a houseboat in Cut Off, Louisiana, for the rest of his life. She can’t have both.
Which will she choose?
Book size: 5.5" x 8.5"
Excerpt
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January 1947
Her eyes wouldn’t open; she couldn’t move; she tried to scream but heard only silence. Where am I? What happened to me? Am I dead? Seized by fear, she felt her heart race, as she waited for her spirit to begin its after-death journey toward the bright light she’d heard her mother talk about. She’d been taught it led the spirit to God. No light yet… Silent prayers tumbled around inside her mind—O my God…heartily sorry…for having offended…sins…
Hours later, muffled sounds began creeping through the fog of her altered state of awareness—voices and sounds of people moving about. She couldn’t be dead and hear noises, could she? And she had not seen the bright light. Maybe it was because her eyes still refused to open. Jacquelyn recalled hearing her mother say hearing was the last sense to leave the body at death. If I’m not dead yet, I must be close."
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