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Fiction. African & African American Studies. THE HOUSE OF ERZULIE tells the eerily intertwined stories of an ill-fated young couple in the 1850s and the troubled historian who discovers their writings in the present day. Emilie St. Ange, the daughter of a Creole slaveowning family in Louisiana, rebels against her parents' values by embracing spiritualism, women's rights, and the abolition of slavery. Isidore, her biracial, French-born husband, is an educated man who is horrified by the brutalities of plantation life and becomes unhinged by an obsessive affair with a notorious New Orleans voodou practitioner. Emilie's and Isidore's letters and journals are interspersed with sections narrated by Lydia Mueller, an architectural historian whose fragile mental health further deteriorates as she reads.
About the Author
Kirsten Imani Kasai is a writer, editor and educator. The author of the novels The House of Erzulie, Ice Song and Tattoo, her short fiction, poetry, essays and articles have appeared in numerous publications in the USA, Canada and Romania. Her company, MagicWordEditingCo.com, helps writers of all stripes achieve their publishing goals. Kirsten is the publisher and editor of BodyPartsMagazine.com, a journal of provocative horror and erotica. She holds an MFA and Certification in the Teaching of Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles?. For more info, as well as audio and video storytelling, visit www.KirstenImaniKasai.com.
