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The House on Coliseum Street

✍ Scribed by Shirley Ann Grau

Publisher
Open Road Media
Year
2012
Tongue
en-us
Weight
246 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN
1453247211

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✦ Synopsis

A provocative novel of a New Orleans woman's heartbreaking decision, by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Keepers of the House.
Joan Mitchell has two suitors, and can't decide whom to marry. A witness to her mother Aurelie's less than successful romantic history, she'd like to skip marriage altogether. Joan and Aurelie live together in a beautiful French Quarter home on Coliseum Street in New Orleans, along with Joan's many half-sisters born of Aurelie's five disastrous marriages.

Joan lives a mostly carefree life, but when she becomes pregnant, she chooses to end her pregnancy rather than marry a man she doesn't loveβ€”a decision with grave consequences in conservative 1950s New Orleans.

The second novel by a National Book Award finalist and one of the most acclaimed voices of the American South, The House on Coliseum Street is a brave, heartbreaking love letter to New Orleans and "a sad, wistful, young,...

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