Fifteenyearold Meely LaBauve comes of age in the Catahoula Bayou, where he struggles to have a relationship with his father, a drunk and an alligator hunter, and survive in a tough neighborhood.
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Praise for Meely La Bauve
"Meely LaBauve does for the Cajun bayou what Cold Mountain did for southern Appalachia, bringing to life a wonderfully peculiar notch of the deep, deep South. Wells gives us back a piece of ourselves as Americans--and takes us on a romp in the swamp as warm and spicy as Momma's best gumbo."
--Tony Horwitz, author of Confederates in the Attic
"I don't know when a voice in fiction has connected so solidly with me. It's as particular as a thumbprint and as unmistakable as someone's laugh. This tough and wonderful child is going to stay with me."
--Anne Rivers Siddons, author of Low Country
"Meely LaBauve is a Cajun Huck Finn, full of fight and honor, who battles his way toward adulthood past gators of all kinds, scaled and otherwise. He is the perfect elixir for a dot.com world."
--Erik Larson, author of Isaac's Storm
"Meely is completely charming. . . . A first-person novel, particularly one of a child in an exotic (to most readers) setting is notoriously hard to pull off, but this one seems real and effortless."
--Frances FitzGerald, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fire in the Lake
Ken Wells grew up on the banks of Bayou Black, deep in South Louisiana's Cajun belt. He got his first newspaper job as a nineteen-year-old college dropout, covering car wrecks and gator sightings for The Courier, a Houma, Louisiana, weekly, while still helping out in his family's snake-collecting enterprise. He is now a senior writer and features editor for The Wall Street Journal's Page One staff. He lives with his family on the outskirts of Manhattan. Meely LaBauve is his first novel.
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