Critical Praise

"A smartly turned-out first novel, about the push and pull between a young Louisiana couple, that holds you snug and won’t let go...[an] A."

——Entertainment Weekly

"What wins us over is Gautreaux’s powerful, often poetic mix of colorful detail and rapid-paced suspense, not to mention his keen ear for Cajun dialect."

——The New York Times Book Review

"Gautreaux chronicles the Louisiana landscape with loving precision and insight. Every sound, every smell, is just right...This is both an elegy for a disappearing way of life and a celebration of enduring values."

——Susan Larson, The New Orleans Times-Picayune

"This is a mighty first novel, told with cinematic grip. With it, Gautreaux himself takes the next step in the moody, sweet dance of Southern literature."

——GQ