{"product_id":"9780802124968","title":"Secessia","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the immensely talented author of \u003ci\u003eThe Blood of Heaven\u003c\/i\u003e comes a gothic portrait of a city ravaged by war and struck by vice and disease—Civil War New Orleans. With his virtuosic, richly historical prose, Wascom carves a tale of insurrection and ill-advised romance, spanning one year in the city at the heart of Secessia, the rebellious just-conquered south.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNew Orleans, May 1862. The largest city in the 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 terrifies his mother, Elise, a mixed-race woman passing for white, and enrages 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, the only survivor of a shipwreck that claimed the lives of her parents. 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, Dr. Emile Sabatier, a fanatical physician who adores disease and is deeply mired in the conspiracy and intrigue surrounding the occupation of the city. Their paths all intersect with General Benjamin Butler of Massachusetts, a man who history will call a beast, but whose avarice and brutal acumen are ideally suited to the task of governing an “ungovernable city.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA haunting tale of greed and malformed love, of slavery and desperation, \u003ci\u003eSecessia\u003c\/i\u003e weaves a vivid tapestry of a dark period in New Orleans’s turbulent history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Grove Atlantic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47011368403184,"sku":"9780802124968","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780802124968_p0.jpg?v=1763724899","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780802124968","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}