Memory is a selection of images.
Some elusive, others imprinted indelibly on the brain. The summer I killed my father, I was ten years old. EB focuses on the Batiste family, who live in Eve's Bayou, a Creole community founded by a freed slave. Though Louis reassures his daughter that the family is still strong and that he still loves Roz very much, Eve is shaken and forever troubled by the incident. By the time the fateful event mentioned in the opening monologue is fully realized, Eve will have learned the truth about the frail and tangled web that unites her family, the manipulation and lies that are told to keep those frail bonds in place, and that not everything is as simple as it seems.