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Washington Square Press, July 2006
Trade Paperback, 288 pages
ISBN-10: 0743483286
ISBN-13: 9780743483285
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Voodoo Season revisits the mystical landscape of New Orleans -- and its most famous Voodoo priestess, Marie Laveau -- that Jewell Parker Rhodes introduced us to in her previous novel Voodoo Dreams. This time, the award-winning author of historical fiction sets the story in the here and now.
Meet Marie Levant. The great-great granddaughter of the beloved, tantalizing Marie Laveau, she is compelled by unseen forces to leave her medical career in Chicago behind and return to her roots. But once she arrives in New Orleans, Marie is both seduced and horrified by this mysterious landscape whose slave-holding past merges with the spoils of the twenty-first century. A place where the Quadroon Balls of yesterday are a present reality, and women of color are still being abused and -- even more horrifying -- rendered "undead." Yet through it all, Marie can't help but sense that she's lived here before . . . and that maybe there's more to this city's history -- and her own.
With Voodoo Season, Rhodes once again presents her legions of fans with a heroine of authentic power and an alluring, unforgettable read.
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Chapter 1"A spellbinding read based on the story of the legendary New Orleans high priestess." -- Essence
-- Essence
"Rhodes' tale of spiritual empowerment and prophetic vision reveals the practice of voodoo as good as well as evil. Nonbelievers along with the initiated will be riveted throughout." -- Publishers Weekly
-- Publishers Weekly
"[The book's] world of sex, malevolence, the undead, and miraculous rescue is alluring." -- Booklist
-- Booklist
"[A] literate page-turner . . . compelling and elegantly written." -- Tananarive Due, author of Joplin's Ghost
-- Tananarive Due, author of Joplin's Ghost
Sylva Herald & Ruralite, March 26, 2009
...becoming a professor of creative writing. His novel Prisoners of War was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner award. Jewell Rhodes is the author of five novels: Voodoo Dreams, Magic City, Douglass Women, Voodoo Season and Yellow Moon, as well as ...
Jewell Parker Rhodes's Books
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Douglass' WomenAn award-winning novel based on the private of abolitionist Frederick Douglass.Read More
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Porch StoriesAward-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes offers a loving tribute to her beloved grandmother, the love she received, and the lessons she learned.Read More
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Yellow MoonIn the second part of the New Orleans trilogy that began with Voodoo Season, Rhodes takes on an ancient African vampire in today's Big Easy, where...Read More
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