This story takes place in Louisiana in the 1970's. Times have changed and across the country the black community has started to see civil rights, but deep in Cajun country there are people who don't like that change. When a white man is killed it seems evident that Mathu, a black man, has done… Continue reading A Gathering of Old Men by Ernest J. Gaines
Day: December 19, 2011
Musing Mondays 12/19/11
Hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading, this week’s musing asks… What’s one book you always recommend to just about anyone? I have to break this up into fiction and non-fiction... believe me, it's hard enough doing it this way. To pick just one altogether would be impossible. For fiction, it would have to be… Continue reading Musing Mondays 12/19/11
Jess Boudreaux 