Title: Secessia
Description: "New Orleans, May 1862. The largest city in the ill-starred confederacy has fallen to Union troops under the soon-to-be-infamous General Benjamin 'the Beast' Butler ... When twelve-year-old Joseph Woolsack disappears from his home, he draws into the unrest his mother Elise, a mixed-race woman passing for white, and his father Angel, whose long and wicked life is drawing to a close. What follows forces mother and son into a dark new world: Joseph must come to grips with his father's legacy of violence and his growing sentiment for Cuban exile Marina Fandal ... Elise must struggle to maintain a hold on her sanity, her son, and her own precarious station, but is threatened by the resurgence of a troubling figure from her past"--
Subjects: Mothers and sons, Conspiracies, Family crises, Fiction, American Civil War (1861-1865) fast (OCoLC)fst01351658, History, Fiction, historical, general, Mothers and sons, fiction, United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, fiction
Places: New Orleans (La.), Louisiana, Southern States, New Orleans
Time periods: Civil War, 1861-1865, 1775-1865