Chita: A Memory of Last Island

A woman’s life is forever changed by a hurricane on a Gulf Coast island in this “evocative parable of people living the good life on the edge of the abyss” (The Washington Post).

In the mid–nineteenth century, the wealthy find relief from the New Orleans heat on the barrier island of L’Ile Dernière. But when a cataclysmic storm arrives and leaves devastation in its wake, young Chita barely escapes with her life. Presuming that her father, a Creole businessman, has been swept away, she take...