Stephanie Soileau
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
viii, 245 pages ; 25 cm
Description
Last One Out Shut Off the Lights is a vivid portrait of the last-chance towns of southwest Louisiana, where oil development, industrial pollution, dying wetlands, and the ever-present threat of devastating hurricanes have eroded their inhabitants' sense of home. These stories feature characters struggling to find a foothold in a world that is forever washing out from under them, people who must reckon with their ambivalence about belonging to a place...