Books & Music
Last One Out Shut Off the Lights by Stephanie Soileau (Autographed Hardcover Edition)
- Item Number
- 192
- Estimated Value
- 26 USD
- Sold
- 4 USD to lkcba0d30
- Number of Bids
- 1 - Bid History
Item Description
Own this autographed hardcover edition of Last One Out Shut Off the Lights by FTCNS neighbor, Stephanie Soileau.
Last One Out Shut Off the Lights is an evocative portrait of the last-chance towns of Southwest Louisiana, where oil development, industrial pollution, dying wetlands, and the ever-present threat of devastating hurricanes have eroded their inhabitants' sense of home. These 11 piercing stories feature indelible characters struggling to find a foothold in a world that is forever washing out from under them, people who must reckon with their ambivalence about belonging to a place so continually in flux.
In a collection whose resonant echoes abound, we meet a reluctant teenage mother who stows her baby in a closet to steal a night out; a spiteful retiree who sabotages his neighbor in the wake of a hurricane; a Pentecostal singer in a children's theater company who confronts the cultish leader of her troupe; a community of elderly Cajuns who conspire with a family of Sudanese immigrants to hide an escaped cow from the authorities; and a desperate young woman who tries to drag her brother to Mexico for surgery, determined to save his life and her own.
As Lauren Groff did for the state of Florida in her recent collection Florida, Stephanie Soileau demonstrates that Louisiana is as much a state of mind as it is a place on the map. A love letter to the Cajun language, life rhythms, and customs that still make the region unique, Last One Out Shut Off the Lights is also a powerful reminder of the treacherous escape routes that bedevil anyone longing to leave home and the traps that remain for those who desire to return.
Item Special Note
Donated by: Stephanie Soileau
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Donated By:
Stephanie Soileau
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