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A review by claudiaswisher
Hurricane by Jewell Parker Rhodes
5.0
Rhodes returns to the subject of Hurricane Katrina...here with Marie Laveau, the 21st century voodooienne. She's grown so much as a character, into her gifts...which are also a curse. There is more loss here. I wonder how much she and I can take.
In this book Marie is impelled to visit the little bayou town of DeLaire. Deep in oil country, run for years by the plantation family, with faithful retainers staying on the land.
But this is a town with secrets. Nana, a voodoo healer, worships gods Marie has never heard of...Nana seems to have a hold over the residents of DeLaire -- or do they have a hold on her?
The mystery deepens, and Marie's frustrations with Nana and her grandsons compounds itself as she attempts to solved the violent murders of a young family -- whose baby calls to Marie when she thinks of her own Marie Claire.
More loss for Marie, as she inadvertently steps into a much bigger conspiracy than she dreamed of.
And all the while, Katrina is bearing down on the bayou, on New Orleans. On the land men have tried to wrestle into submission...men with their enormous hubris, believing the old gods can be subdued.
I think for me this is the most satisfying of the three books, the one deeply rooted in metaphor and history and the truth of what we are doing to this beauiful land.
Rhodes says the series is finished...but many questions are left unanswered...I hope to see Marie again. And again.
In this book Marie is impelled to visit the little bayou town of DeLaire. Deep in oil country, run for years by the plantation family, with faithful retainers staying on the land.
But this is a town with secrets. Nana, a voodoo healer, worships gods Marie has never heard of...Nana seems to have a hold over the residents of DeLaire -- or do they have a hold on her?
The mystery deepens, and Marie's frustrations with Nana and her grandsons compounds itself as she attempts to solved the violent murders of a young family -- whose baby calls to Marie when she thinks of her own Marie Claire.
More loss for Marie, as she inadvertently steps into a much bigger conspiracy than she dreamed of.
And all the while, Katrina is bearing down on the bayou, on New Orleans. On the land men have tried to wrestle into submission...men with their enormous hubris, believing the old gods can be subdued.
I think for me this is the most satisfying of the three books, the one deeply rooted in metaphor and history and the truth of what we are doing to this beauiful land.
Rhodes says the series is finished...but many questions are left unanswered...I hope to see Marie again. And again.