The Kingdom Where Nobody Dies

Seven tales of crisscrossing and intertwining lives in Louisiana during the civil rights era. From the shadows of its aftertime memory ensouls the figures in an artists paintings and brightens the wraiths of a womans long-ago ebullient companions. In the wake of the assassination a disabled man broods over his failing marriage a school teacher prepares for a party a lawyer relives the loss of his wife a black woman mourns President Kennedys death. During Freedom Summer a family leaves Louisiana and its spirit pursues them. An Afterword honors Prousts belief that an artists work should create its own Posterity.