Jesus Out to Sea: Stories

One of the countrys most-acclaimed and popular novelists offers a selection of ten short stories centered around the devastation in Louisiana and Mississippi during and after Katrina.

In this moving collection of short stories, James Lee Burke elegantly marries his flair for gripping storytelling with his lyrical writing style and complex, fascinating character portraits. The backdrop of the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast is a versatile setting for Burkes stories, which cover the scope of the human experiencefrom love and sex to domestic abuse to war, death, and friendship.