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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, 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 section of the bridge collapses, injuring Murphy Warrington, an African American man who once worked for Thomas's father. Murphy becomes the catalyst for a series of revelations about Thomas's light-skinned black mother and the reasons she abandoned her husband and son when Thomas was an infant.
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I began to write Decorations in grief and despair and fear. My wife Carrie and I had lost, hours after she was born prematurely, our daughter Frances. Her twin sister, Molly, survived but was being kept alive with oxygen, blood transfusions, and antibiotics in the neonatal unit of a hospital an hour away from our home. I confess that I can't imagine now how it is I woke up before dawn each morning and wrote for three hours before Carrie and I made the drive to the hospital. I know why I did it, of course. I wrote to hold the crushing sadness at bay, to divert attention from the terror, to try to extract some tincture of meaning in a life that had become unimaginably unmoored.
Born and raised in New Orleans, John Gregory Brown is the author of the novels Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery; The Wrecked, Blessed Body of Shelton Lafleur; Audubon's Watch; and A Thousand Miles from Nowhere. His honors include a Lyndhurst Prize, the Lillian Smith Award, the John Steinbeck Award, a Howard Foundation fellowship, the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Book of the Year Award, and the Library of Virginia Book Award.
His visual art has been displayed in individual and group exhibitions and has appeared online and in print in Hayden's Ferry Review, the New England Review, Flock, The Brooklyn Review, Gulf Stream, and elsewhere.
He is the Julia Jackson Nichols Professor of English at Sweet Briar College in Virginia, where he lives with his wife, the novelist Carrie Brown.
His visual art has been displayed in individual and group exhibitions and has appeared online and in print in Hayden's Ferry Review, the New England Review, Flock, The Brooklyn Review, Gulf Stream, and elsewhere.
He is the Julia Jackson Nichols Professor of English at Sweet Briar College in Virginia, where he lives with his wife, the novelist Carrie Brown.
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