About this item
A tragicomic tour de force about one man's redemption through love and art.Fleeing post-Katrina New Orleans, haunted by the ruins of his marriage, a squandered inheritance, and the teaching job he inexplicably quit, Henry Garrett pulls into a small Virginia town after three days on the road, hoping to find peace and quiet as the only guest of The Ganesha Motel. But within a matter of hours, Henry finds himself at the heart of an accidental homicide. He is drawn into the lives of the victim's relatives, even as the voices in his head that drove his father to suicide grow louder and louder.Thanks to the kindness of strangers, his burgeoning friendship with Latangi, the widowed motel proprietor, and the discovery of a glorious and epic Indian love poem that has never seen the light of day, Henry is slowly pulled back from the brink to find redemption.
About the Author
Born and raised in New Orleans, John Gregory Brown is the author of the novels Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery; The Wrecked, Blessed Body of Shelton Lafleur; and Audubon's Watch. His new novel, A Thousand Miles From Nowhere, will be published by Lee Boudreaux Books, an imprint of Little, Brown & Co., in Spring 2016.
His honors include a Lyndhurst Prize, the 1994 Lillian Smith Award, the 1996 Steinbeck Award, and the 2002 Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Book of the Year Award. For two decades he taught and directed the creative writing program at Sweet Briar College, where he served as the Julia Jackson Nichols Professor of English. He and his wife, the novelist Carrie Brown, have three children and teach at Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts.
