Catahoula Bayou Series (1-2) by Ken Wells
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Overview: Ken Wells, novelist and journalist, grew up second of six sons on the banks of Bayou Black deep in South Louisiana’s Cajun country. His father was a part-time alligator hunter and snake collector and his mother a gumbo chef extraordinaire. Wells began his journalism career covering car wrecks and gator sightings for the weekly Houma, La., Courier newspaper.
Genre: General Fiction/Classics
01. Meely LaBauve: Fifteen-year-old Meely LaBauve is growing up on Catahoula Bayou and living by his wits. Not since Huck Finn rafted down the Mississippi has there been a coming-of-age story like this, told in such an utterly authentic unlettered American voice. From a charming encounter with first love in the Canciennes’ corn patch to an adventurous paddle through wild and timeless places little explored.
Ken Wells has cooked up a zesty gumbo of a book–rich, poignant, and often hilarious.
02. Junior’s Leg: Fifteen years after he tormented fellow students at Catahoula Bayou School, Junior Guidry is broke, drunk, one-legged, and living in a wreck of a trailer on the edge of a snake-infested swamp. He’s survived an oil-rig accident that would’ve killed most men but, with the help of a good lawyer, made him rich instead. But he’s squandered his fortune on drink, blackjack, womanizing, and brawling, leaving a wake of wrecked cars and friendships, not to mention lost or stolen wooden legs.
Then the mysterious Iris Mary Parfait enters his life. She’s on the run from a tragic childhood and a bad, bad man.
When news reaches Junior that a bar owner with Mob connections has posted a $100,000 bounty on Iris’s head because she knows too much about him, Junior realizes he could regain his fortune—but at what cost?
Narrated in Junior’s unvarnished voice, Junior’s Leg takes the reader on a singular journey through the mind of a troubled man. It is at turns unsettling, ribald, sexy, and poignant—a bold stroke of storytelling that ultimately plumbs the possibilities of love and redemption, even for as unlikely a candidate as Junior.
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