Stone Motel : Memoirs of a Cajun Boy
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography
ISBN-10
1496849531
ISBN-13
9781496849533
Publisher
University Press of Mississippi
Imprint
University Press of Mississippi
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 11th, 2023
Print length
280 Pages
Weight
450 grams
Dimensions
15.50 x 23.40 x 2.20 cms
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In the summers of the early 1970s, Morris Ardoin and his siblings helped run their family’s roadside motel in a hot, buggy, bayou town in Cajun Louisiana. Theirs is a tale of suspense, awkward romance, naughty French lessons, and an insider’s take on a truly remarkable, not-yet-homogenized pocket of American culture.
In the summers of the early 1970s, Morris Ardoin and his siblings helped run their family''s roadside motel in a hot, buggy, bayou town in Cajun Louisiana. The stifling, sticky heat inspired them to find creative ways to stay cool and out of trouble. When they were not doing their chores--handling a colorful cast of customers, scrubbing motel-room toilets, plucking chicken bones and used condoms from under the beds--they played canasta, an old ladies'' game that provided them with a refuge from the sun and helped them avoid their violent, troubled father. Morris was successful at occupying his time with his siblings and the children of families staying in the motel''s kitchenette apartments but was not so successful at keeping clear of his father, a man unable to shake the horrors he had experienced as a child and, later, as a soldier. The preteen would learn as he matured that his father had reserved his most ferocious attacks for him because of an inability to accept a gay or, to his mind, broken, son. It became his dad''s mission to "fix" his son, and Morris''s mission to resist--and survive intact. He was aided in his struggle immeasurably by the love and encouragement of a selfless and generous grandmother, who provides his story with much of its warmth, wisdom, and humor. There''s also suspense, awkward romance, naughty French lessons, and an insider''s take on a truly remarkable, not-yet-homogenized pocket of American culture.
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