Sequel to Blues in the Wind Presents a Fierce Story of Lust, Lynching, Murder, and Voodoo
Los Angeles, CA, November 12, 2007 --(PR.com)-- The passionate lives of the members of the Fergerson/Broussard families continues in Shadows of the Blues, the next steamy installment in a three-part trilogy by writer/producer/director Whitney LeBlanc. Shadows of the Blues examines the battles within a family, and also within a changing America, in the decade leading up to the Civil Rights Movement and on through the turbulent years. It is a saga played out against the strains of the blues and the drumbeats of a vibrant voodoo culture.
In LeBlanc’s first novel in the series, Blues in the Wind, readers were introduced to the matriarch of the family, Martha Broussard Fergerson, a woman who is as cunning as she is beautiful. From outside appearances, she is a good Catholic woman who appears to reflect the virtues she so clearly espouses. But within her grows a bitterness born from the loss of her family’s wealth, a wealth unjustly stolen from her great great grandfather. As her bitterness turns into a hateful intolerance, it causes her to turn against those she loves, ensuring that they too will leave her—if only in spirit.
Shadows of the Blues brings all the leading players of this Creole family into further focus, as each must find a way to come to terms with the choices they have made and thus with the woman who seems to have affected their lives unalterably. Martha’s husband, Phillip, enters into his own shady world of adultery, loving another woman but unable to release himself from the clutches of a wife now gone mad. Martha, however, has her own secrets, which, one by one as they are exposed, threaten to destroy the whole family.
LeBlanc’s Shadows of the Blues is a powerful story of the search for identity and dignity, and, ultimately, redemption.
“Naomi was buck-naked. She grabbed a chicken by the head and swung it around and around until the head was the only thing that remained in her hand. The body of the chicken quivered on the ground. Then Naomi threw the head in the fire, picked up the pulsating body, and sprinkled the spewing blood over the candle-covered altar. After that, she took a long stick and spelled out a word on the ground. Tante spelled it out in her own mind as each of the large letters were formed in the dirt. “M-A-R-T-H-A.” When that was done, Naomi and the two girls danced over the writing on the ground—their movements got faster and faster and more and more frantic and continued on and on in time to the drum beat.”
ISBN(s): 1432714758; 1432709204 Format(s): 5.5 x 8.5 Paperback; 5.5 x 8.5 Hardback w/Jacket SRP: US $17.95/CAN $17.95; US $23.95/CAN $23.95
Genre: Fiction/Historical
Whitney J. LeBlanc has spent more than twenty-five years in theatre and television as a writer, producer, set designer, and award-winning director. He has written scripts for stage, screen and television. LeBlanc grew up in Louisiana, but now lives in California’s Napa Valley with his physician wife. Between writing novels, he creates stained glass windows for churches.
For more information or to contact the author or illustrator, visit www.outskirtspress.com/shadowsoftheblues
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In LeBlanc’s first novel in the series, Blues in the Wind, readers were introduced to the matriarch of the family, Martha Broussard Fergerson, a woman who is as cunning as she is beautiful. From outside appearances, she is a good Catholic woman who appears to reflect the virtues she so clearly espouses. But within her grows a bitterness born from the loss of her family’s wealth, a wealth unjustly stolen from her great great grandfather. As her bitterness turns into a hateful intolerance, it causes her to turn against those she loves, ensuring that they too will leave her—if only in spirit.
Shadows of the Blues brings all the leading players of this Creole family into further focus, as each must find a way to come to terms with the choices they have made and thus with the woman who seems to have affected their lives unalterably. Martha’s husband, Phillip, enters into his own shady world of adultery, loving another woman but unable to release himself from the clutches of a wife now gone mad. Martha, however, has her own secrets, which, one by one as they are exposed, threaten to destroy the whole family.
LeBlanc’s Shadows of the Blues is a powerful story of the search for identity and dignity, and, ultimately, redemption.
“Naomi was buck-naked. She grabbed a chicken by the head and swung it around and around until the head was the only thing that remained in her hand. The body of the chicken quivered on the ground. Then Naomi threw the head in the fire, picked up the pulsating body, and sprinkled the spewing blood over the candle-covered altar. After that, she took a long stick and spelled out a word on the ground. Tante spelled it out in her own mind as each of the large letters were formed in the dirt. “M-A-R-T-H-A.” When that was done, Naomi and the two girls danced over the writing on the ground—their movements got faster and faster and more and more frantic and continued on and on in time to the drum beat.”
ISBN(s): 1432714758; 1432709204 Format(s): 5.5 x 8.5 Paperback; 5.5 x 8.5 Hardback w/Jacket SRP: US $17.95/CAN $17.95; US $23.95/CAN $23.95
Genre: Fiction/Historical
Whitney J. LeBlanc has spent more than twenty-five years in theatre and television as a writer, producer, set designer, and award-winning director. He has written scripts for stage, screen and television. LeBlanc grew up in Louisiana, but now lives in California’s Napa Valley with his physician wife. Between writing novels, he creates stained glass windows for churches.
For more information or to contact the author or illustrator, visit www.outskirtspress.com/shadowsoftheblues
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