Bayou Jesus

Frank Potter, a black Christ-like figure, and Samson Boudreaux, a white man of great power and greater weakness, live in a house of haunted women. When the possibilities of miracle surrounding Frank become all too real, the inevitable tragedy of Christ's Passion unfolds in 1930s Louisiana . Bayou Jesus is the winner of the Oklahoma Writers competition for best mainstream novel, a Deep South Writers prize from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, and an Arkansas Governor's Arts Award.

Literature & Fiction

Miller, M. G.

Literary

Cavern Pr

<p>If Jesus came to us today, who would he be? Louisiana in the first half of the twentieth century convulses between old and new, antebellum and modern. Zassy, a sharecropper coming to adulthood finds what she thinks is love with a traveling Bible salesman, but ends up with real love from a son she is sure is a blessing from God. Samson, master of a failing plantation, returns from war with dreams of a resurrected South, only to find his wife sinking into alcoholism from his abuse. The daughter born to them grows up to rebel against everything he stands for. And at the heart of the story, Frank Potter, Zassy's son, struggles through the web of greed and lust to find his way to the God who looms above the world like a judging father. The lines of all these lives weave together into the threads of love and service that form the tapestry of religion and asks us to find the Christ in all of us. Entrancing, altruistic and shocking, the Jesus of Miller's bayou is a gritty meditation on the changing times, and will haunt readers' memories long after others fade.</p>

Liffey Press

<p>Hell is empty, and all the devils are here. There’s a fine line between heaven and hell, and Simon Duchane is trapped somewhere between. Six missionaries and a saved prostitute enter the jungles of South America to bring the word of the Lord to the savages. But a few bad words can make savages of anyone. And when heaven meets hell, and the sacred grows profane, Simon must somehow survive the unspeakable, and find the God who sentenced them all to damnation.</p>

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Bayou Jesus

Bayou Jesus

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