Bibliograph

The house of Erzulie, Kirsten Imani Kasai

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The house of Erzulie, Kirsten Imani Kasai

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eng

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Literary text for sound recordings

fiction

Main title

The house of Erzulie

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Oclc number

1097606561

Responsibility statement

Kirsten Imani Kasai

Summary

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 slave-owning 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 voodoo 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

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