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Summer 2008 Issue
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The Good Pirates of the Forgotten Bayous
Fighting to Save a Way of Life in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina
(Available August 29, 2008)
In this gripping saga, Louisiana native Wells provides a close-up look at the harrowing experiences in the backwaters of New Orleans during and after Katrina. Focusing on the plight of the intrepid Robin family, who trace their local roots to a time before the American Revolution, Wells recounts the landfall of the storm and the tumultuous seventy two hours afterwards, when the Robins’ beloved bayou country lay catastrophically flooded and all but forgotten by outside authority as the world focused its attention on New Orleans. Wells then follows his characters for more than two years as they strive, amid mind-boggling wreckage and governmental fecklessness, to rebuild their shattered lives. Ultimately, this is a story about the deep longing for home and a proud bayou people’s love of the fertile but imperiled low country that has nourished them—about a place and culture whose survival is far from guaranteed.
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Travels with Barley (April 2008)
Travels with Barley is a brisk, literate narrative through the precincts of the beer makers, sellers, drinkers and thinkers who collectively drive the mighty River of Beer onward. The heart of the book is a journey along the Mississippi River, from Minnesota to Louisiana, in a quixotic search for the mythical Perfect Beer Joint – a journey that turns out to be the perfect pretext for viewing America through the prism of a beer glass.
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Crawfish Mountain (November 2007)
From "one of the most compelling voices in fiction of the last decade (Los Angeles Times), Wells is back wriring his favorite subject – the exotic, beleaguered Louisiana wetlands – in a sharp, rollicking tale of corporate corruption and political shenanigans. The fight over one man's tract of sacred marsh fronts a deeper story of our place in the environment and our obligations to it.
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Catahoula Bayou Trilogy
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