{"id":58204,"date":"2019-05-28T00:10:32","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T00:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=58204"},"modified":"2019-05-28T00:10:32","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T00:10:32","slug":"decorations-in-a-ruined-cemetery-a-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=58204","title":{"rendered":"Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery, A Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery, A Novel<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

University of South Carolina Press<\/a>
\nMay 2019 (originally published in 1994)
\n256 pages
\n5.5 x 8
\nPaperback ISBN 978-1-64336-018-8<\/p>\n

John Gregory Brown<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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A luminous and heartbreaking tale of identity, devotion, and regret<\/em><\/p>\n

John Gregory Brown’s debut novel examines family, race, and faith in a heartbreaking tale of identity, devotion, and regret. The story centers on the Eagen family of New Orleans<\/a>, Irish Catholics of “mixed blood” in a city where race defines destiny. In 1965 Thomas Eagen and his twelve-years-old twins, Meredith and Lowell, abruptly drive off, leaving his second wife, Catherine, and their home. As they cross Lake Pontchartrain<\/a>, a section of the bridge collapses, injuring Murphy Warrington, an African American man who once worked for Thomas\u2019s father. Murphy becomes the catalyst for a series of revelations about Thomas\u2019s light-skinned black mother and the reasons she abandoned her husband and son when Thomas was an infant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A luminous and heartbreaking tale of identity, devotion, and regret<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,369,8,15,20],"tags":[29838,1438,16608],"class_list":["post-58204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-louisiana","category-media-archive","category-novels","category-usa","tag-john-gregory-brown","tag-new-orleans","tag-university-of-south-carolina-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58204"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58206,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58204\/revisions\/58206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}