Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: September 14, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780618154524
First sentence: THE DAY WE LEFT my stepmother, the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway collapsed, and the new life my father had imagined, spiriting his children back to his childhood home, fell away from us as quickly as that bridge, the whole world thrown off-balance like a gyroscope hammered into the wrong shape, the lake coughing up our family's secrets in the form of an old bent-backed black servant.