NATCHEZ AT SUNSET

<p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Natchez at Sunset</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is set in south Mississippi a few miles above the gulf coast. The story is told through the alternating perspectives of three characters: Caleb Vogel in his early 40s is a former journalist making a living as a heavy equipment operator and raising a pair or wolves in South Mississippi near the Gulf Coast; his wife Jessica is former ship welder now a university art professor preparing for a show featuring her metal sculpture Natchez at Sunset while contemplating a divorce from Caleb; and Hubert Vogel Caleb's father is a cattle rancher whose property joins Caleb's but he is estranged from his son and has promised to kill the wolves if he ever finds them on his property. </span></p><p>The story opens as Caleb drives up to his house and finds a dead coyote gutted and fitted over his mailbox a newspaper clipping crumpled in its mouth. He drops the clipping on the floor of the pickup along with the others he's received-threats about his newspaper articles and opinion pieces threats against his wolves. The setting of the novel is contemporary or perhaps just a few years in the future and it imagines a Mississippi where immigrants have been deported assault rifles are openly carried environmental laws have been considerably relaxed and discrimination against minorities is on the rise.</p>