Last one out shut off the lights : stories

Author

Stephanie Soileau

Call Number

• FICTION SOIL (CEN, OSH)

Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2020.

Physical Description

viii, 245 pages ; 25 cm

Summary

Last One Out Shut Off the Lights is a vivid portrait of the last-chance towns of southwest Louisiana, where oil development, industrial pollution, dying wetlands, and the ever-present threat of devastating hurricanes have eroded their inhabitants' sense of home. These stories feature characters struggling to find a foothold in a world that is forever washing out from under them, people who must reckon with their ambivalence about belonging to a place so continually in flux.

Contents

• So this is permanence
• Attachment theory
• Ranger queen of sulphur
• Poke salad
• Whiskey business
• When Pluto lost his planetary status
• Mr. A
• Cut off, Louisiana: a ghost story
• Haguillory
• Camera obscura
• Boucherie.