Pearce Oysters A Novel

<p><b>“The complex characters and the lovingly described Louisiana setting bring this eco-tragedy sympathetically to life. Recommended to readers of issue-oriented fiction such as Charlotte McConaghy’s <i>Migrations</i> and Barbara Kingsolver’s <i>Demon Copperhead</i>.”</b><br/><i><b>—Booklist</b></i></p><p><b>A fractured family, a devastated community, and the disaster that brings them together.</b></p><p>After the sudden death of his father, Jordan Pearce reluctantly takes over the family’s generations-old oyster-farming business on Louisiana''s Gulf Coast. He’s still adjusting to the new role when the <i>Deepwater Horizon</i> oil rig explodes offshore, triggering one of the worst environmental disasters in history and throwing his hardscrabble coastal town into crisis.</p><p>While looking after his distressed mother, Jordan struggles to keep the company afloat and is forced to seek help from his estranged brother, Benny, a beatnik musician living in New Orleans. In the face of impending tragedy, this small community searches for a way forward, just as the fractured Pearce family, finally reunited under one roof, must find the hope and courage to save their legacy.</p>