Stephanie Soileau (Livres)

Stephanie Soileau Livres

Stephanie tisse des récits qui explorent la tapisserie complexe des relations humaines et les émotions profondes souvent dissimulées sous la surface de la vie quotidienne. Sa prose, célébrée pour sa qualité lyrique et son aperçu perçant de la psyché humaine, explore des thèmes tels que l'identité, la perte et la quête d'appartenance. Le style distinctif de l'auteure se caractérise par une maîtrise précise de la langue et une capacité à créer des images vives qui résonnent profondément chez les lecteurs. À travers ses histoires, Stephanie offre des réflexions réfléchies sur la nature complexe de l'expérience humaine et les manières dont nous sommes façonnés par nos souvenirs et nos liens.

Last One Out Shut Off the Lights

256pages
9 heures de lecture

3,6(205)Évaluer

A debut story collection from a rising star, revealing Louisiana and its characters with stark honesty and empathy as they grapple with homesickness, desperation, and desire. Last One Out Shut Off the Lights is a vivid and evocative portrait of the last-chance towns of southern Louisiana, where oil development, industrial pollution, dying wetlands, and the ever-present threat of devastating hurricanes have eroded their inhabitants' sense of home. These stories feature characters struggling to find a foothold in a world that is forever washing out from under them, and who must reckon with their ambivalence about belonging to a place so continually in flux. An overwhelmed mother leaves her infant son in a closet to buy herself a night out; a teacher with a terminally ill husband fantasizes about another man; an old man surveys the devastation left by Hurricane Katrina and decides the fate of a lost cat; and a young woman out of options tries to drag her obese brother to Mexico for surgery, desperate to save his life and her own. Stephanie Soileau's writing is a powerful reminder of the rich variety of American southern culture, and brings back into focus the language and customs that still make Louisiana so unique.