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bayoubro.com |
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the ken wells books site |
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now available in paperback… the quest for the perfect beer joint on sale nationwide April 1 from |
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“I highly recommend this (burrrrp) book.” —Dave Barry |
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coming in august 2008 from yale university press… the good pirates of the forgotten bayous fighting to save a way of life in the wake of hurricane katrina |
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How a plucky coterie of Louisiana shrimp boat captains faced down the most destructive hurricane in U.S. history—only to realize the struggle to preserve their centuries-old culture had just begun. With a long and colorful family history of defying storms, the seafaring Robin cousins of St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, make a fateful decision to ride out Hurricane Katrina on their hand-hewn fishing boats in a sheltered Civil-War-era harbor called Violet Canal. But when Katrina springs some cruel surprises, Violet is overrun by killer surges-- and the Robins must summon all their seamanship, courage, and cunning to save themselves and the scores of others suddenly cast into their care. In this gripping saga, Louisiana native Wells provides a close-up look at the harrowing experiences in the backwaters of New Orleans during and after Katrina. Focusing on the plight of the intrepid Robin family, who trace their local roots to a time before the American Revolution, Wells recounts the landfall of the storm and the tumultuous seventy two hours afterwards, when the Robins’ beloved bayou country lay catastrophically flooded and all but forgotten by outside authority as the world focused its attention on New Orleans. Wells then follows his characters for more than two years as they strive, amid mind-boggling wreckage and governmental fecklessness, to rebuild their shattered lives. Ultimately, this is a story about the deep longing for home and a proud bayou people’s love of the fertile but imperiled low country that has nourished them—about a place and culture whose survival is far from guaranteed.
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ken’s fourth novel from random house...november 2007... |
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Friends of Ken! Check out the smokin’ new CD from Cajun fiddler extraordinaire Waylon Thibodeaux on Rabadash Records. The title cut, Cher BeBe was written by Ken and his brother Pershing Wells, the songwriting team known as Crawdiddy |
