Season of the Swamp Horror_Gift_Guide and interweaves two main narratives

and interweaves two main narratives

Traveling through the unforgiving landscape of a shattered nation in the midst of Reconstruction

Through bitingly comic asides and wry observations

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Season of the Swamp Horror_Gift_Guide and interweaves two main narrativesA major new novel set in nineteenth century New Orleans by the author of Signs Preceding the End of the World New Orleans, 1853. A young exile named Benito Jurez disembarks at a fetid port city at the edge of a swamp. Years later, he will become the first indigenous head of state in the postcolonial Americas, but now he is as anonymous and invisible as any other migrant to the roiling and alluring city of New Orleans. Accompanied by a small group of