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Louisiana - Volume 1 - The Color of Blood
Louisiana - Volume 1 - The Color of Blood | Chretien Léa
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Louisiana, 1961. The elderly Louise shoos away questions from granddaughters eager to know more about the family's distant past. But what is she hiding? As she unburdens herself to Hazel, the maid, memories and legends come pouring out from the years following the birth of the American nation: a sugarcane plantation, an abusive patriarch, a fearful wife, a headstrong daughter, and a mysterious voodoo priestess. What other dark secrets lurk, long-repressed, in the recesses of history? Léa Chrétien and Gontran Toussaint deliver a vivid, atmospheric story of generations of strong women and the secret things they do to survive, from the Civil War to the civil rights era.
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A woman looks back on her family history as her children want to compare it to Gone With the Wind. But most life in slave owning Louisiana was not good, not easy, and no Rhett Butler to be found. This is the first of three volumes. It‘s very intense and dark. The illustrator does an excellent job using color to display emotion both in the highs and the lows. I loved the mix of hoodoo, plantation, and slave story.

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