NAVEL OF THE MOON

Offers a different kind of New Orleans – not magnolias, moonlight, or vampires but a place where dreams are big and reality is disillusionment.”
– Pulitzer Prize winner Shirley Anne Grau

In the “Irish Channel” of 1960s New Orleans – a district about to be swept up in a maelstrom of demolition and change – a young woman of mixed French/Mexican heritage grapples with identity and transformation in her relationships with friends, and with her indomitable abuelita, Mimy. Mary Helen Lagasse's previous novel, THE FIFTH SUN, won the Premio Aztlán and the Miguel Mármol Award