Bonavere Howl (160) (Essential Prose Series)

It is 1955, and the three Fayette sisters have lived their whole lives in the enchanting French Quarter of New Orleans. Though neglected by their parents, they share a close bond with one another--from afternoons in their small, shared bedroom, to trying to speak with ghosts beneath the sweeping trees in their garden. When the middle sister Constance disappears, the family believes she has run away, as she has done before; it is only the youngest--thirteen-year-old Bonavere (known as Bonnie)--who suspects there is more to it. Met only with grief from her family and resistance from the police, Bonnie embarks on a journey to bring her sister home, venturing through fabled Red Honey Swamp, and the city's vibrant and brutal history. Unravelling the layers of her sister's secret life, Bonnie discovers a pattern of girls found half-mad in the Louisiana swampland, and a connection to the wealthy, notorious Lasalle family. To rescue her sister, she must confront the realities of true violence, and the very nature of insanity.

From the Back Cover

Caitlin Galway's Bonavere Howl is Bayou Gothic, filled with beautiful and atmospheric writing.--Alix Hawley, author of All True Not A Lie In It, Giller-longlisted and Amazon.ca First Novel Award bookIn true Southern Gothic tradition, Caitlin Galway manages to both unnerve and enchant, cloaking the reader in the perilous sticky heat of the Bayou. This gorgeously layered tale, the story of two mesmeric sisters--one who disappears, and the brave, audacious Bonnie who goes in search of her--haunted me for days.--Carolyn Smart, author of Hooked ? [A]n astonishing debut novel. This story's lush world, pulsing through ghostly spaces, will hook you. The sheer layered sensuousness of Galway's story will ? make it difficult to put down this book's haunted swamp-world of family secrets. Galway is an extraordinary writer. Gothic deep south, in the hands of a poet. Totally gorgeous.?Jeanette Lynes, author of The Factory Voice (which was long-listed for the Giller) and The Small Things that End the World

About the Author

Caitlin Galway is an author and freelance editor. Her fiction has been published in Riddle Fence, The Broken Social Scene Story Project, the Carter V. Cooper Short Fiction Anthology Series, and by CBC Books. She has won and been shortlisted for numerous contests and has received multiple literary grants. She studied English Literature at Queen's University.

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