num_pages: 256
description: A compelling debut love story set in a deceptively bucolic Louisiana countryside, where blacks, Cajuns, and whites maintain an uneasy coexistence--by the award-winning author of A Lesson Before Dying and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman .After living in San Francisco for ten years, Jackson returns home to his benefactor, Aunt Charlotte. Surrounded by family and old friends, he discovers that his bonds to them have been irreparably rent by his absence. In the midst of his alienation from those around him, he falls in love with Catherine Carmier, setting the stage for conflicts and confrontations which are complex, tortuous, and universal in their implications.
language: English
title: Catherine Carmier
titlecomplete: Catherine Carmier
genres: African American Literature, Fiction, African American, Southern, Race, American, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Romance, Novels
ratings_count: 325
places: Louisiana
publisher: Vintage