Spelling Mississippi
Subtitle: a novel
By: Marnie Woodrow.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Canada
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 387
Subjects: Canadians -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Fiction.; Female friendship -- Fiction.; New Orleans (La.) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Cleo, a Canadian on holiday in New Orleans, is sitting alone on a French Quarter wharf late one November night when a woman clad in full evening dress takes a running leap off the wharf into the river. When the woman, whom Cleo has assumed was dead by suicide, reappears a few nights later on the late evening news, Cleo is determined to find her. Both women make some startling self-discoveries and even find romance when Cleo finds the mysterious woman at last.