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The Unnatural History of Cypress Parish
Elise Blackwell
Umbrage
April 2007
On Sale: March 30, 2007
210 pages
ISBN: 1932961313
EAN: 9781932961317
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Louis Proby is an old man now, sitting in his study in New
Orleans awaiting what they say is a huge storm, Hurricane
Katrina. As he watches the skies darken, he remembers his
earlier life, as a watchful, curious young man filled with
hunger and desire in Cypress Parish, the life that was
washed away when the Mississippi River flooded in 1927. He
remembers exactly how the Parish was sacrificed to those
waters—because the city fathers said it was expendable. They
said that flooding Louis’s home was necessary to save New
Orleans. He has long known that was never the truth. The
Parish could have been spared. And he has always known the
part his father played in that decision. But what he thinks
on now is the dearest cost extracted from him on the day
they dynamited the dikes and let the waters flow. He thinks
on his first love, Nanette Lançon.
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