Description
In New Orleans, the dead talk and the living listen.
Giving ghost tours on the decaying streets of the French Quarter isn’t exactly a high-profile career, but the guides at Spirits of Yore Haunted Tours are too strange and troubled to do anything else. They call themselves Quarter Rats, a group of outcasts and dreamers and goths who gather in hole-in-the-wall bars to bicker, spin yarns, and search for belonging in the wee hours of the night after the tourists have staggered home.
Through the ghost stories they tell, their own haunted lives come into focus. Like the city they call home, these tour guides are messy with contradiction: they suffer joyfully, live morbidly, and sin to find salvation.
Weaving together real New Orleans folklore with the lives of eleven unforgettably vibrant characters, Ash Tuesday is a love letter to America’s last true bohemia and the people, both dead and living, who keep its heart beating. With her debut, Blayde has carved out a deep and uber-readable interpretation of what it means to live, love, and grieve in New Orleans.
“There’s something about New Orleans. Maybe you can trace it to Latin America or the Caribbean or maybe not, maybe you can’t define it at all. The divine? The diabolical? I don’t know what to call it. But there’s magic, here.”
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Ariadne Blayde
Published: 03/22/2022
Publisher: April Gloaming Publishing
ISBN: 9781953932099
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.68lbs
Size: 0.76″ H x 8.25″ L x 5.50″ W
About the Author
Blayde, Ariadne: – ARIADNE BLAYDE is a New Orleans-based fiction writer and playwright. Her play “The Other Room” won the VSA Playwright Discovery Award and has been produced hundreds of times around the world, and her fiction has been shortlisted by the Tennessee Williams Festival, the Saints and Sinners Festival, and more. Her short stories have been published in Parhelion Literary Magazine, the Fountain Magazine, and various anthologies; her story “Shinichi’s Tricycle” won the 2020 Quantum Shorts Competition’s People’s Choice Award.Ariadne moonlights as a ghost tour guide and jazz singer in the French Quarter.www.ariadneblayde.com
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