Love, Cajun Style

by Diane Les Becquets

Overview

It's the summer before Lucy's senior year in high school, and life in her sleepy Louisiana town is about to be turned upside down. Her mama's flirting with the dark stranger who runs the art gallery, her best friends Mary Jordan and Evie have boys on the brain, the drama teacher is sparking some powerful (if very, very wrong) feelings in Lucy, and a new boy has moved to town-Dewey, whose gentle ways captivate her. With everyone, including herself, so embroiled in affairs of the heart, it is any wonder the town of Sweetbay is fixin' to have itself one sweltering summer?

For fans of Rebecca Wells and Kimberly Willis Holt, here's a delicious novel sure to be read, loved, and passed along.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781619630208
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	10/01/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	320
Lexile:	800L (what's this?)
File size:	2 MB
Age Range:	14 Years

About the Author

Diane Les Becquets was hailed by Publishers Weekly as "a writer to watch" after the publication of her first novel, The Stones of Mourning Creek. In addition to teaching writing, she enjoys archaeology, snowmobiling, bicycling, and is a competitive archer. She recently completed her MFA in creative writing. Diane lives in northwestern Colorado with her three sons.
Diane Les Becquets is the author of Love, Cajun Style and The Stones of Mourning Creek, and was awarded the prestigious PEN American/Phyllis Reynolds Naylor writing award for Season of Ice. She currently lives in New Hampshire where she is the director of creative writing at Southern New Hampshire University and is on the faculty of the university's  M.F.A. program. Visit the author at www.lesbecquets.com

Editorial Reviews

Here's a quick-moving story focusing on a trio of high school girls coping with the tensions of sexuality in their small Louisiana town. Lucy's intellectual friend Mary Jordan seems to have patched up a fight with her boyfriend, while their friend Evie appears to have found a true love, all as Lucy worries if she'll ever find love. She especially worries that her intensely religious mother may be having an affair with an artist who has recently moved to town. Meanwhile, Lucy's relationship with Dewey, the artist's talented son, slowly moves in the right direction. Filled with playful vignettes of a fun-loving Cajun lifestyle, here's a novel dealing with sexuality that can appeal to both conservative and liberal readers. Not all characters make good decisions, but the love of the three friends for each other heals wounds. Realistic, affecting and enjoyable throughout. (Fiction. YA)

Kirkus Reviews

I love how perfect this book is! Love can seem confusing, and scary, and painful, and difficult. ...I remember how tortured and intimidating everything about love and dating felt; this book took me completely back there. But it's also sweet and simple and wonderful in the most unexpected ways, just like this story. If you pay attention, the best lesson about love is in here. ...A wonderful book about love and life, blended magically with a cajun soul.” —TeensReadToo.com

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