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Please join us with author Larry Gray when he presents and signs his new novel, THE HOUSE ON ESPLANADE. https://www.octaviabooks.com/event/larry-gray-house-esplanadeEvery year since November 11, 1918, in a house on Esplanade Avenue, Yvonne St. Amant lights a candle for her husband, lost in the Great War. Then on this same day in 1933, a young woman brings a baby to Yvonne’s door before shortly disappearing. The baby, nicknamed Bing, grows into a thoughtful, precocious woman whose life intertwines with many of the biggest events of the twentieth century: World War II, an outbreak of polio that leaves her with an almost indiscernible limp, and the summer of love in San Francisco. Along the way, Bing explores abroad, finding romance and heartbreak in Paris, art in the Côte d’Azur, faith in Istanbul.
Returning always to the house on Esplanade, Bing has one ambition through it all, “I don’t want to grow old before I grow wise.” This is her story.
“In lucid and glowing prose, Larry Gray follows the life story of a young girl the reader will never forget. THE HOUSE ON ESPLANADE is in every way an authentic New Orleans novel filled with memorable detail and well-realized characters. A delightful page-turner.” —Tim Gautreaux, author of Signals: New and Selected Stories
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Octavia Books, 513 Octavia Street,New Orleans,LA,United States