{"product_id":"shaman-circus-9780984259465","title":"Shaman Circus","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Gail Gray\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: All Things That Matter Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: All Things That Matter Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Occult \u0026amp; Supernatural\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn New Orleans following Katrina all bets are of; all masks dissolved. \"Don't forget the sham in shaman,\" Jacob Laguerre lies to his new apprentice, Alex Hampton. When Alex, a twenty-eight year-old anthropology professor goes on field-study to post-Katrina New Orleans, he enters a chaotic and altered landscape where he's psychologically, physically and spiritually challenged by the sarcastic mentoring of the mulatto, Laguerre, a current day voudou shaman. Both Laquerre's and Alex's psyches struggle through stages of transition and rebirth as their lives are enmeshed with a group of quirky fringe-dwellers, as colorful and eccentric as the New Orleans itself. Lily Hampton, a sculptor, torn between her love for both men; Mavis, an artist who spent nights in her attic, but survived the floods; Perry Laguerre, Jacob's hermaphroditic twin, and Bad Jacqui, lesbian owner of a French Quarter bar: are pulled together to form the cynical but ultimately idealistic team who vow to stay in post-Katrina New Orleans. They all follow a taut path between madness and redemption in the no man's land of Refrigerator Town as they assist in the aftermath and healing of both the city and those who remain.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"All Things That Matter Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45498254590103,"sku":"9780984259465","price":1711.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780984259465.webp?v=1767448848","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/shaman-circus-9780984259465","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}