Isbn: 9798194690107 - what the bayou keeps (3 Ergebnisse)

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Some debts skip a generation. This one didn't.Gabriel Fontenot was seven years old the first time he knelt beside a dying dog and felt something answer back. By eighteen, he's spent his whole life hiding two things from the small Louisiana parish that both needs him and half-fears him: the healing gift passed down through his family's women, and Remy Doucet - the boy he's loved since before he had a word for it.Then a hurricane comes ashore, and his grandmother finally tells him the truth. A century ago, his great-great-grandmother struck a desperate bargain with something in the flooded bayou to save her dying son. The price was never named plainly - only that it would come due again, seven generations later, in a season of storms.That season is this one.What the Bayou Keeps is a South Louisiana MM romance steeped in Cajun folk magic and folk horror - a story about a boy who spent his whole childhood subtracting himself down to something small enough to be safe, and the reckoning that finally teaches him a harder truth: the only offering that was ever going to be enough was the whole of him, given freely, without flinching.For readers of Southern gothic magical realism who want their folk horror braided with real tenderness - first love, found family, and a hundred years of inherited fear finally, gently, laid to rest.…