Eros in New Orleans and Other Stories

Abstract

Eros in New Orleans features nine short stories that explore the rich, even mythical character of the Gulf Coast. From New Orleans to Mobile, the mundane exists without comment alongside the fantastic, and in this collection, realism and surrealism coincide. "Graves Like Houses" explores the intersection of food and death as a baker must face responsibility for the burial of her estranged husband, while in the title story a Greek god falls in unrequited love in the contemporary Big Easy. In "Smoking Loon" a woman grapples with her mother's abandonment, while in "Danes in Purgatory" Shakespeare's melancholy prince charges a teenager with the task of explaining Hamlet once and for all.