Synopses & Reviews
Compared to Dorothy Allison and Frank McCourt, debut novelist Martin Pousson has written a masterly portrait of the American Dream gone wrong, set in Louisiana's Cajun country. When marriage to a man with a high school diploma fails to make a waitress's dreams come true, her children become the focus of her fiercest hopes and most damaging desires.
Synopsis
Compared to Dorothy Allison and Frank McCourt, this debut novelist offers a moody and masterly portrait of family relations and misguided ambition -- the American Dream gone wrong -- set in Louisiana's Cajun country...
About the Author
Martin Pousson was born and raised in Louisiana. He is the assistant director of the writing program at Rutgers University. No Place, Louisiana is his first novel.