Bayou Jesus

Frank Potter, a black Christ-like figure, and Samson Boudreaux, a white man of great power and greater weakness, live in a house of haunted women. When the possibilities of miracle surrounding Frank become all too real, the inevitable tragedy of Christ's Passion unfolds in 1930s Louisiana . Bayou Jesus is the winner of the Oklahoma Writers competition for best mainstream novel, a Deep South Writers prize from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, and an Arkansas Governor's Arts Award.