The acclaimed author of The Blood of Heaven and Secessia тАЬdelivers a lyrical, emotionally charged study of life along the Gulf Coast a century pastтАЭ (Kirkus Reviews).
In 1914, with the world on the brink of war, Isaac, a nature-loving artist whose past is mysterious to all, including himself, meets Kemper, a defiant heiress caught in the rivalry between her brothers. KemperтАЩs older brother Angel is hiding a terrible secret about his sexuality, and her younger brother Red possesses a capacity for violence that frightens even the members of his own brutal family. Together Isaac and Kemper build a refuge on their beloved, wild, Gulf Coast. But their paradise is short-lived; as the coast is rocked by the storms of summer, the country is gripped by the furor preceding World War I, and the Woolsack familyтАЩs rivalries come to a bloody head.
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From the breathtaking beauty of the Gulf to the bloody havoc wreaked by the United States in Latin America,┬аThe New Inheritors┬аexplores the beauty and burden of what is handed down to us all. At once a love story and a family drama, a novel of nature and a novel of war,┬аThe New Inheritors┬аtraces a family whose life is intimately tied to the Gulf, that most disputed, threatened, and haunted part of this country we call America.
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тАЬOne of the darkest, most compelling writerly imaginations around.тАЭтАФNew Orleans Advocate
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тАЬThe third mesmerizing historical novel by Kent Wascom . . . His style and subjects echo great Southern writers like William Faulkner and Harry Crews, continuing a tradition of recounting terrible things in deliriously beautiful language.тАЭтАФTampa Bay Times