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Corina's Way
The Reverend Corina Youngblood, minister of the African Spiritual Church of Mercy, is a woman powered by Jesus and the santos. Her corner store, which caters to the eclectic religious and spiritual needs of New Orleans, is threatened by her Cuban ex-lover and mentor Elroy Delgago's plans to open a Walmart-like Superbotanica nearby. Gus Houston, a displaced former army officer now ersatz chaplain at an exclusive girl's school, discovers her mesmerizing powers and strikes up a profitable and prophetic relationship, sending Corina his troubled students for consultation. When Gus hits on the idea of entering the white girls into the gospel singing competition during the Jazzfest, he triggers a series of events that has all sides evoking the spirits for good and ill. Rod Davis combines religion, voodoo, New Age philosophy, and good old-fashioned capitalism, greed, envy, and a host of other unsavory motives in his entertaining first novel.
"Rod Davis understands that hidden Southern space where the ancient currents of African spirituality still linger in the American soul. Corina's Way is a stunning fictional debut from an author who has already brought us what is arguably the finest account of voudou in America."
- Wade Davis, author of The Serpent and the Rainbow"Make room on that crammed New Orleans shelf for Corina's Way, a multi-layered tale of suspense about our mysterious underbelly and its all-seeing navel." - Andrei Codrescu, author of Messiah
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Corina's Way
The Reverend Corina Youngblood, minister of the African Spiritual Church of Mercy, is a woman powered by Jesus and the santos. Her corner store, which caters to the eclectic religious and spiritual needs of New Orleans, is threatened by her Cuban ex-lover and mentor Elroy Delgago's plans to open a Walmart-like Superbotanica nearby. Gus Houston, a displaced former army officer now ersatz chaplain at an exclusive girl's school, discovers her mesmerizing powers and strikes up a profitable and prophetic relationship, sending Corina his troubled students for consultation. When Gus hits on the idea of entering the white girls into the gospel singing competition during the Jazzfest, he triggers a series of events that has all sides evoking the spirits for good and ill. Rod Davis combines religion, voodoo, New Age philosophy, and good old-fashioned capitalism, greed, envy, and a host of other unsavory motives in his entertaining first novel.
"Rod Davis understands that hidden Southern space where the ancient currents of African spirituality still linger in the American soul. Corina's Way is a stunning fictional debut from an author who has already brought us what is arguably the finest account of voudou in America."
- Wade Davis, author of The Serpent and the Rainbow"Make room on that crammed New Orleans shelf for Corina's Way, a multi-layered tale of suspense about our mysterious underbelly and its all-seeing navel." - Andrei Codrescu, author of Messiah
The Reverend Corina Youngblood, minister of the African Spiritual Church of Mercy, is a woman powered by Jesus and the santos. Her corner store, which caters to the eclectic religious and spiritual needs of New Orleans, is threatened by her Cuban ex-lover and mentor Elroy Delgago's plans to open a Walmart-like Superbotanica nearby. Gus Houston, a displaced former army officer now ersatz chaplain at an exclusive girl's school, discovers her mesmerizing powers and strikes up a profitable and prophetic relationship, sending Corina his troubled students for consultation. When Gus hits on the idea of entering the white girls into the gospel singing competition during the Jazzfest, he triggers a series of events that has all sides evoking the spirits for good and ill. Rod Davis combines religion, voodoo, New Age philosophy, and good old-fashioned capitalism, greed, envy, and a host of other unsavory motives in his entertaining first novel.
"Rod Davis understands that hidden Southern space where the ancient currents of African spirituality still linger in the American soul. Corina's Way is a stunning fictional debut from an author who has already brought us what is arguably the finest account of voudou in America."
- Wade Davis, author of The Serpent and the Rainbow"Make room on that crammed New Orleans shelf for Corina's Way, a multi-layered tale of suspense about our mysterious underbelly and its all-seeing navel." - Andrei Codrescu, author of Messiah
Rod Davis is the recipient of the inaugural Fiction Award of the PEN Southwest Book Awards in 2005 for Corina's Way, described by Kirkus Reviews as "a spicy bouillabaisse, New Orleans-set, in the tradition of Flannery O'Connor or John Kennedy Toole: a welcome romp, told with traditional Southern charm." A member of the Texas Institute of Letters, Davis is also author of American Voudou: Journey into a Hidden World, selected as one of the "Exceptional Books of 1998" by Bookman Book Review Syndicate. A six-part series on the Texas-Mexico border, "A Rio Runs Through It," appears in Best American Travel Writing 2002. His PEN Texas-award-winning essay, "The Fate of the Texas Writer," is included in Fifty Years of the Texas Observer and his Texas Monthly story, "Wal-marts Across Texas," is excerpted in True Stories by David Byrne. Davis has received numerous awards as a magazine editor and writer. He earned an M.A. in Government at Louisiana State University and studied at the University of Virginia before joining the Army in 1970, serving as a first lieutenant in South Korea. He lives in Texas.
