SuitabookLouisiana Hurricane, 1860 (Historical Disasters #5)
Kathleen Duey
- Reading
- Consider checking in around the hurricane and vengeance scenes, then leave room to talk about how the story handles the consequences. The amount of detail in these scenes is not clear.
- Themes
- Choice, class and power: Madelaine seeks a meaningful life and loves a poor Cajun labourer; her father plans her marriage and secretly terrorises poor Cajuns. The overview sets personal choice against family authority and class difference, but does not show how the narrative judges those forces.
- Worth knowing
- The overview includes violence, heartache, a father’s vengeance and a terrifying night involving a hurricane. These elements could make the story emotionally intense; their detail and aftermath are unclear.