By David Lummis
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Customer tags: new orleans(4), mystery, david lummis, coffee, gay fiction
Review & Description
The agnostic, ten-years-sober son of a Baptist minister, B. Sammy Singleton has an opinion about everything. He also has a guidebook on New Orleans coffee shops to write. But when his best friend Catfish-reluctant heir to the Beaucoeur sugarcane fortune-is arrested for "grave robbing" and then goes missing, events spin out of control. The outcome is a personal journey into a past Sammy thought he had laid to rest, an excavation of buried truths about himself and about what the tragedy-bound Catfish calls the American Holocaust. Set in the French Quarter and Faubourgs Marigny and Tremé, The Coffee Shop Chronicles of New Orleans - Part 1 smoothly blends satire, mystery, and historical fiction. The book "reviews" and is often narrated from local coffee shops including CC's, PJ's, Rue de la Course, Café du Monde, Café Rose Nicaud, and Envie, while exploring such themes as the "sacrament" of coffee drinking, living sober, New Orleans' civil rights history, and the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow in America. According to Swampland.com: Cultures of the South: "Lummis' tender and affectionate descriptions of New Orleans, his 'Paris of the South,' evoke Pat Conroy's lush and loving portrayal of coastal South Carolina. Just as Conroy's South of Broad is a paean to Charleston, so is Lummis' Chronicles a love song to New Orleans. Alternately funny, painful, entertaining, and always unflinchingly honest, The Coffee Shop Chronicles of New Orleans is a must read." Read more
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