The Unnatural History of Cypress Parish by Elise Blackwell
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007
Reviewed by L.D.Y.
Hardcover, 210 pages, 2007
Rating: 10/10
Reason for Reading: The title drew me in.
Synopsis: Louis Proby is a 90-year-old man when he hears that Hurricane Katrina is on the way, but his mind isn’t on the upcoming events - it’s on the great floods of 1927 that happened in Louisiana when he was in his late teens. Looking back on the weeks before the floods, he tries to piece together the events and interactions that pushed him into becoming a man as the river threatened to destroy everything he loved - and not necessarily the type of man he thought he would be.
