Flags on the Bayou
by James Lee Burke
Descriptions
From New York Times-bestselling author James Lee Burke comes a novel set in Civil War-era Louisiana as the South transforms and a brilliant cast of characters ? enslaved and free women, plantation gentry, and battle-weary Confederate and Union soldiers ? are caught in the maelstromIn the fall of 1863, the Union army is in control of the Mississippi river. Much of Louisiana, including New Orleans and Baton Rouge, is occupied. The Confederate army is in disarray, corrupt structures are falling apart, and enslaved men and women are beginning to glimpse freedom.When Hannah Laveau, a formerly enslaved woman working on the Lufkin plantation, is accused of murder, she goes on the run with Florence Milton, an abolitionist schoolteacher, dodging the local constable and the slavecatchers that prowl the bayous. Wade Lufkin, haunted by what he observed?and did?as a surgeon on the battlefield, has returned to his uncle?s plantation to convalesce, where he becomes enraptured by Hannah. Flags on
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