Kent Wascom
Kent Wascom
Kent Wascom, born in 1979 in New Orleans, Louisiana, is an acclaimed author known for his evocative storytelling and vivid portrayal of Southern life. With a background rooted in the cultural richness of the American South, he captures its complexities and nuances through his literary craft.
Personal Name: Kent Wascom
Birth: 1986
Kent Wascom Books
(1 Books)
"New Orleans, May 1862. The largest city in the ill-starred confederacy has fallen to Union troops under the soon-to-be-infamous General Benjamin 'the Beast' Butler ... When twelve-year-old Joseph Woolsack disappears from his home, he draws into the unrest his mother Elise, a mixed-race woman passing for white, and his father Angel, whose long and wicked life is drawing to a close. What follows forces mother and son into a dark new world: Joseph must come to grips with his father's legacy of violence and his growing sentiment for Cuban exile Marina Fandal ... Elise must struggle to maintain a hold on her sanity, her son, and her own precarious station, but is threatened by the resurgence of a troubling figure from her past"--