Inherited Death

Six-time award-winning novel.

In Jeanne Rietzke's Inherited Death, New Orleans is the perfect backdrop for the McNulty family to implode after the death of their matriarch. As this dysfunctional Southern family reunites to bury their mother, the stages of grief are eating, drinking, and cursing, but in no particular order. For the middle child, Melissa Fairmont, the abusive reality is all too real as she relives her terrifying childhood, is emotionally abused by her sisters, wrestles with he...