Jewell Parker Rhodes

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Jewell Parker Rhodes made her debut as a novelist in 1995 with Voodoo Dreams.  Ten years later, she revisited the legend of Marie Laveau in Voodoo Season.  She is also the author of the historical novels Douglass’ Women and Magic City, two writing guides, and a memoir, Porch Stories, winner of two Arizona Book Awards.  Among other awards, she has received a National Endowment of the Arts Award, the American Book Award, the Black Caucus of the ALA Award, the PEN/ Oakland Josephine Miles Award for Literary Excellence, and the California State University Distinguished Teaching Award.  She is the Piper Endowed Chair and Founding Artistic Director of the Piper Center for Creative Writing at Arizona State University.  She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Drama Criticism, a Master of Arts in English, and a Doctor of Arts in English with an emphasis in Creative Writing from Carnegie-Mellon University.  Married with two children, Jewell Parker Rhodes makes her home in Scottsdale, Arizona, and Boston, Massachusetts.  She is working on the sequel to Yellow Moon, and the culmination of her contemporary voodoo trilogy, Hurricane Levee Blues

When she sleeps, she dreams of blood. Rain, never ending. The river is rising and the yellow moon warns of an ancient evil — an African vampire — wazimamoto — a spirit created by colonial oppression.The struggle becomes personal, as the wazimamoto is intent on destroying her and all the Laveau descendants. Marie fights to protect her daughter, lover, and herself from the wazimamoto’s seductive assault on both body and spirit.

Echoing with the heartache and triumph of the African-American experience, the soulful rhythms of jazz, and the horrors of racial oppression, Yellow Moon gives us an unforgettable heroine — sexy, vulnerable, and mysterious — in Marie Levant, while it powerfully evokes a city on the brink of catastrophe.

Yellow Moon is part two of the New Orleans trilogy that began with Voodoo Season — magical realist fiction that takes the legend of the voodoo priestess Marie Laveau, as imagined by Jewell Parker Rhodes in the bestselling Voodoo Dreams, into the present day.

Visit Jewell Parker Rhodes on the Web: http://www.pageturner.net/JewellParkerRhodes/index.htm

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