{"id":47738,"date":"2018-08-15T19:28:17","date_gmt":"2018-08-16T01:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=47738"},"modified":"2018-08-15T19:28:17","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T01:28:17","slug":"kent-wascom-signs-his-book-the-new-inheritors-thursday-august-16-at-off-square-books-in-oxford-mississippi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/kent-wascom-signs-his-book-the-new-inheritors-thursday-august-16-at-off-square-books-in-oxford-mississippi\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent Wascom Signs His Book “The New Inheritors” Thursday, August 16 at Off Square Books in Oxford, Mississippi"},"content":{"rendered":"

The third novel from \u201cone of the most exhilarating historical novelists in the country\u201d (Washington Post<\/em>), set in New Orleans, the Mississippi coast, Cuba, and Nicaragua in the early decades of the twentieth century,\u00a0The New Inheritors<\/em>\u00a0is a masterful portrait of young love and a family driven apart by greed, anger, and matters of the heart.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kent Wascom<\/strong> is one of the most exciting and ambitious emerging voices in American fiction. Envisaging a quartet of books telling the story of America through a single family and region, the Gulf Coast of the United States, Wascom began with his much-lauded debut,\u00a0The Blood of Heaven<\/em>, published when he was just twenty-six and praised as \u201cstunning\u201d by the\u00a0Miami Herald<\/em>, and \u201clike the sermon of a revivalist preacher\u201d by the\u00a0Wall Street Journal<\/em>. His second novel,\u00a0Secessia<\/em>, continues the story of the Woolsack family in Civil War New Orleans, and in\u00a0The New Inheritors<\/em>, he has written his most powerful and poignant novel yet.\"\"<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

In 1914, with the world on the brink of war, Isaac, a nature-loving artist whose past is mysterious to all, including himself, meets Kemper, a defiant heiress caught in the rivalry between her brothers. Kemper\u2019s older brother Angel is hiding a terrible secret about his sexuality, and her younger brother Red possesses a capacity for violence that frightens even the members of his own brutal family. Together Isaac and Kemper build a refuge on their beloved, wild, Gulf Coast. But their paradise is short-lived; as the coast is rocked by the storms of summer, the country is gripped by the furor preceding World War I, and the Woolsack family\u2019s rivalries come to a bloody head. From the breathtaking beauty of the Gulf to the bloody havoc wreaked by the United States in Latin America,\u00a0The New Inheritors<\/em>\u00a0explores the beauty and burden of what is handed down to us all. At once a love story and a family drama, a novel of nature and a novel of war,\u00a0The New Inheritors<\/em>\u00a0traces a family whose life is intimately tied to the Gulf, that most disputed, threatened, and haunted part of this country we call America.<\/span><\/p>\n

About the Author<\/strong><\/span>
\nKent Wascom\u2019s first novel,\u00a0The Blood of Heaven<\/em>, was named a best book of the year by the\u00a0Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0and NPR. It was shortlisted for the David J. Langum Sr. Prize for Historical Fiction and longlisted for the Flaherty-Dunnan Award for First Fiction. Wascom was awarded the 2012 Tennessee Williams\/New Orleans Literary Festival Prize for Fiction. He lives in Louisiana.\u00a0\"The<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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