
Flags on the Bayou
A Novel
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James Lee Burke
Winner of the 2024 Edgar Award for Best Novel!
From American master James Lee Burke comes a novel set in Civil War-era Louisiana as the South transforms and a brilliant cast of characters—enslaved and free women, plantation gentry, and battle-weary Confederate and Union soldiers—are caught in the maelstrom.
In the fall of 1863, the Union army is in control of the Mississippi river. Much of Louisiana, including New Orleans and Baton Rouge, is occupied. The Confederate army is in disarray, corrupt structures are falling apart, and enslaved men and women are beginning to glimpse freedom.
When Hannah Laveau, a formerly enslaved woman working on the Lufkin plantation, is accused of murder, she goes on the run with Florence Milton, an abolitionist schoolteacher, dodging the local constable and the slavecatchers that prowl the bayous. Wade Lufkin, haunted by what he observed—and did—as a surgeon on the battlefield, has returned to his uncle’s plantation to convalesce, where he becomes enraptured by Hannah. Flags on the Bayou is an engaging, action-packed narrative that includes a duel that ends in disaster, a brutal encounter with the local Union commander, repeated skirmishes with Confederate irregulars led by a diseased and probably deranged colonel, and a powerful story of love blossoming between an unlikely pair. As the story unfolds, it illuminates a past that reflects our present in sharp relief.
James Lee Burke, whose “evocative prose remains a thing of reliably fierce wonder” (Entertainment Weekly), expertly renders the rich Louisiana landscape, from the sunsets on the Mississippi River to the dingy saloons of New Orleans to the tree-lined shores of the bayou and the cottonmouth snakes that dwell in its depths. Powerful and deeply moving, Flags on the Bayou is a story of tragic acts of war, class divisions upended, and love enduring through it all.
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This story is completely different from all his other books. This one takes us back to Civil War times although still in Cajun country in south Louisiana. There are a lot of different forces at work, the Unios soldiers who are occupying the area, the Confederate soldiers striving to take it back, the Jayhawkers who were sort of in between the two armies but mainly just plundered and destroyed everything in their wake, then there were the local citizens just trying to survive the war and have some kind of future, and finally there were the slaves who had the worst of it and had had the worst of it for many, many years. and they wanted their freedom
Into this environment the author crafts a great tale, although not always the happiest of times for just about everyone. It would have really sucked to be living in this time under these circumstances. Often, we think our current times are really bad, but it would take a lot to match the turmoil in this tale.
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