Although I did not find the book "fall-on-the-floor funny" as promised by Stephen King, the knock-knock jokes did lend to the atmosphere of personalities frozen in adolescence by time and circumstance. The setting is post Katrina Louisiana, a small town - Jeanette, and Barataria Bay now beset by the BP oil spill and its aftermath. We have marijuana-growing backwater twins, a treasure-seeking one-armed man, a father and son fisher family devastated by the wife/mother's drowning during Katrina, two con men/criminals, and a slick ex-native now working for BP to convince former neighbors to sign on the dotted line to absolve BP of all indemnity. These characters' stories dovetail as tension builds toward an explosive climax and a partially unresolved, realistic ending with celebratory aspects true to the land of laisez les bon temps rouler.
"Context was everything, context and intention."
"All you needed in life was a good start."
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