Long considered the finest collection of Louisiana folktales and customs, this book chronicles the stories and legends that have emerged from the bayou country.

Gumbo Ya-Ya: A Collection of Louisiana Folk Tales

Literature & Fiction

Lyle Saxon

Robert Tallant

Edward Dreyer

Mythology & Folk Tales

Bonanza Books

Saxon's accounts include Mardi Gras as seen through the eyes of a boy and a brief history of the city.

Fabulous New Orleans

History

Americas

Pelican Publishing

Children of Strangers is the powerful and moving story of love in a community bound by race and class. Famieis a mulatto girl, a half-breed. Her ancestors were free blacks who rivalled the white planters in wealth and culture. But on a Louisiana plantation in the 1920's, Famie is an outcast, rejected by whites because of her black ancestors, and unwilling to associate with the sharecroppers who are descendants of slaves. An illicit love affair with a white landowner leaves Famie with a son to raise. Her dream is that Joel will someday become accepted into white society. But in her struggle to transcend race and class Famie must sacrifice the last links to her past.

Children of Strangers

R. Bemis Publishing, Limited

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