My Bayou

 

Funny, thoughtful, and moving—and sometimes all three at once—as Adler recounts her discovery of the city and the life she forged there, before Katrina and after. Above all, this is the work of a writer: virtually every sentence has an interesting idea or turn of phrase, and emanates from a voice you want to keep listening to.

—Ben Yagoda, author of Memoir: A History and About Town: The New Yorker and the World It Made

 

 

A personal history that finds its form in a meandering bayou, this moving meditation on the collapse of a marriage details how floodwaters breached more than just levees in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

—John Biguenet, author of Oyster and The Torturer’s Apprentice

 

 

Constance Adler plucks prophetic beauty from the rain clouds of the Bayou Saint John, rituals of vodou, and the deep layers of love found in the people around New Orleans. She is a masterful writer.

—Jacqueline Sheehan, New York Times bestselling author of Lost & Found and Now & Then