Title: Deep in the shade of paradise
Subtitle: A Novel
First published: 2002
Description: "Welcome to Shiver-de-Freeze, a boot-shaped precinct deep in the Louisiana swamp, famous for its healing waters and curious fauna. Grisham Loudermilk is marrying Adriane Thevenot at Paradise, the family's ancestral home, and we're here for the wedding. But reason and love, it would seem, keep little company in paradise these days: Grisham's cousin Adlai Birdsong has fallen desperately in love with the bride-to-be.

Adlai's ill-advised courtship proceeds even as his daddy, Royce, struggles to recall his past in the face of Alzheimer's; as Father Pat McDermott realizes his passion for the mother of the bride; as the conjoined twins, Tous-les-Deux, train their eyes on Boudou Fontana, the last of the star-crossed Fantana clan. And just when it seems that Adlai must resign himself to a prolonged season of bachelorhood, Miranda Ferry, Grisham's recent lover, wanders into town unawares."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Domestic fiction, Weddings, Plantation life, Plantation life in fiction, Louisiana in fiction, Fiction, Weddings in fiction, Louisiana, fiction, Fiction, sagas, New York Times reviewed
Places: Louisiana
LC classification: PS3554.U325 D44 2002