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Charming and Significant- a review of The Goodness of Saint Roch

 


        Having read this last summer, I must confess this is a long overdue book review. Prior to acquiring this collection from Crescent City Books in December of 2019, I had read only one short story by Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar-Nelson. It was "A Carnival Jangle"... a poignant brief tale I was delighted to reread along with the other thirteen stories in this slim volume. Her brevity is in bountiful economy and she wrote long before the term "flash fiction" was coined to describe some of the shortest of short stories.
        Her stories in The Goodness of Saint Roch are charming in their affectionate detail but equally as significant in documenting a bygone era of New Orleans by one of her native daughters. Thank you, Second Line Press, for preserving this important work! The cover is too stunning not to mention as well.

        -Kristin Fouquet 2021

"Reading The Goodness of Saint Roch" copyright 2020 Kristin Fouquet

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