Why a Booktrail?
A journey through the sugarcane and swamps of Louisiana. Careful there’s a storm coming… And it’s a strong and violent wind blowing thorough the generations
Afterworld
What you need to know before your trail
The Afterworld follows the religious path of a holy book –
Book 1 – The book of revelations
Book 2 – The book of celebration
Book 3 – End of days
Book 4 – Amen
This is a story not only of people but of a family – a very dysfunctional one caught up in a hurricane – not only that of Katrina which blows them all apart but a hurricane in every sense of the word.
The Duvalier family is made up of 4 generations and they each tell their story in their own quirky and highly individual voice – they are eccentric and each has their own personal demons.
Travel Guide
It is June. It is hot. It is humid. It is Louisiana
Sugar plantations
The most surprising and unusual part of the book is the ‘voice’ given to the swamp lands and the sugar cane fields which make up the setting and the backdrop for the Duvalier story –
You and your Jesuit priests brought me to Louisiana in the 1750s, without asking my permission. You don’t have my permission! You don’t own me. You need me.
Then the storm hits, Hurricane Katrina hits uncovering all of the secrets, corruption and deviance that has managed, up until now to hang by the tip of its old and frail fingertips to the brink of reality.
The swamps and the land are the characters here for they see what goes on in the sugar cane fields and the swamplands where the human characters think no one can see them and their dark secrets. But the sugar cane has eyes. This in itself is enough to make you scream or shake with fear. It did us.
A Swamp tour is a must!
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