Using her mother's recorded words as a springboard, Lana Laws Downing has written eighteen stories of fiction and fact woven together to recreate life as her mother remembered it in a remote logging camp on the shores of Lake Verett in the Louisiana cypress swamp in the 1920's.

Heaven and High Water: Fictional stories based on the early life of Alfreda Felterman Laws

Literature & Fiction

Downing, Lana Laws

Lapin, Casey Laws

Genre Fiction

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

<p>In the 1920s, following the death of his parents, young Alphonse Henri Caillet moves to his grandmother's home on Grand Isle, a tiny island off the coast of Louisiana. Islanders have no bridge, no electricity and no running water. Alphonse tries to fit in at Grand Isle school, but bullies tease him and give him the nickname "T-Garçon." Alphonse and his grandmother have little money, but they find inventive ways to supplement their meager income. His grandmother is a healer-a traiteur-and a midwife. Alphonse takes on a summer job entertaining wealthy children from New Orleans who vacation on the island. He fulfills his wish to search for Lafitte's treasure. T-Garçon's wise grandmother does her best to raise him to be an accepting, responsible, God-fearing young man. Above all, she wants Alphonse to have an education. She loves rearing her grandson, and Alphonse begins to thrive in her care on this tiny island of legend and lore where neighbors help one another.</p>

T-Garçon of Grand Isle: T-Garçon Goes to Jesuit

Lulu Publishing Services

Jon Teel and the Miracle Bus

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Christian Faith

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