Del Norte Public Library

"The intertwining stories of two Louisiana families--three generations of African-American men--and their struggles to make a place for themselves in a country deeply divided in the aftermath of the Civil War and beyond"--Provided by publisher.

A man reflects on the summer of his fourteenth year, where in Baton Rouge he fell in love with a golden-haired girl across the street before an unspeakable crime shattered illusions in his seemingly idyllic neighborhood.

Photographer Jeremy Bishop travels back to a Louisiana for his father's funeral. He finds himself in ways he never imagined in the graveyard, in a stranger's appearance at the wake, in a suicide and a murder, and, finally, inside a cardboard box that had belonged to his father. Slowly he weaves the past and the present, exploring the covenants made between parents and children, husbands and wives, sisters and brothers--Cover.

"The adopted daughter of the most powerful man in town, Schuyler Crandall left Heaven, Louisiana, a brokenhearted girl. Now a crisis has brought her home to a family in conflict, a logging empire on the brink of disaster, and seething secrets that make Heaven hotter than hell. Still there are her beautiful younger sister, Tricia, with her cruel lies-- Ken, Tricia's handsome husband, who married the wrong sister, Jigger, the pimp and ruffian with plans...