What's a good book on life (historical and current) in Southern Louisiana? Ideally not just urban or rural but a survey of everything.
>>25294647Suttree
Confederacy of dunces, unironicallyHuey long
>>25294654suttree is set in knoxville
what is there to know? tornadoes, New Orleans being below sea level, girls showing their tits on merdi gras>>25296778>Huey longthe fucking hearts of iron 4 guy
For fiction, George Washington Cable and Tim Geautreaux. >t. Cajun
>>25297954>>25294647OP I can second Tim Geautreaux, start with Welding With Children
>>25297945Huh? He was a famously corrupt politician who also did a lot of great things and was assasinated. He was also a dick who built a lot of roads but famously did not pave up to non voters houses.>>25294647Gumbo yaya
>>25297954>>25298413Tim Geautreaux sounds exactly like what I was looking for, thank you both
>>25299027set in Georgia though, unless they changed it just for the movie.
>>25299035I think some stop reading at "Southern" and never see Louisiana. I've done the same kind of mistake.
Not exactly related but there's an entire series on rural Appalachian living. Looks comfy as fuck.
>>25300795As someone who grew up in the Cajun heartland, I'm not sure how relevant that is. It's a good read I admit from the small bits I've read. But the life of people living on a mountain range is far different from the life of people living in the completely flat and marshy terrain of Cajun country. There's probably some overlap due to the general rural theming but any of the particulars will be unrecognizable between the two. One huge example: basements and cellars are exceedingly rare due to most of the land being at or even below the water line. We even have to bury our dead in cement above ground so they don't float up when it rains heavily. Check out pics of Louisiana grave yards. It threw me for a loop when I first saw a 'regular' graveyard in real life with just the headstones poking out of the ground.
