# Decorations In A Ruined Cemetary A Nove

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- Authors: [John Gregory Brown](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-gregory-brown)
- Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
- ISBN: 978-16-4336-018-8
- Pages: 256
- Published: 2019-05-07
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

John Gregory Brown's debut novel examines family, race, and faith in a heartbreaking tale of identity, devotion, and regret. The story centers on the Eagen family of New Orleans, Irish Catholics of "" mixed blood"" in a city where race defines destiny. In 1965 Thomas Eagen and his twelve-years-old twins, Meredith and Lowell, abruptly drive off, leaving his second wife, Catherine, and their home. As they cross Lake Pontchartrain, a section of the bridge collapses, injuring Murphy Warrington, an African American man who once worked for Thomas's father. Murphy becomes the catalyst for a series of revelations about Thomas's light-skinned black mother and the reasons she abandoned her husband and son when Thomas was an infant.