Welcome to Grand Prairie, Louisiana - land of confounding accents, hard-drinking senior citizens, and charming sinners - brought to hilarious life in a bracing, heartfelt debut novel simmering with Cajun spice...Father Steve Sibille has come home to the bayou to take charge of St. Pete's... read more
“Hope? Potential? Optimistic uncertainty? Those emotions that come flooding in immediately after fear is successfully vanquished.”
“Luckily...Our culture managed to survive, partly because of the older generation, partly because there will always be kids who aren't embarrassed of where they come from...”
“People aren't all that complicated, Father. It always boils down to the Four Fs: fucking, fighting, family and funding. That's people in a nutshell...fucking and fighting...those two almost always travel together.”
It makes my parishioners look like a bunch of tree sloths who’d gotten into the Ambien.Highlighted by 3 Kindle customers
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