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A lightning bolt of a literary debut. ---Adam Johnson, Pulitzer Prize winner

Enchanting and so neatly planed they feel made by time, these stories mark the debut of a writer to watch. ---John Freeman, Literary Hub

Last One Out Shut Off the Lights is an evocative portrait of the last-chance towns of southwest Louisiana, where oil development, industrial pollution, dying wetlands, and the ever-present threat of devastating hurricanes have eroded their inhabitants'' sense of home. These eleven piercing stories feature indelible characters struggling to find a foothold in a world that is forever washing out from under them, people who must reckon with their ambivalence about belonging to a place so continually in flux.

In a collection whose resonant echoes abound, we meet a reluctant teenage mother who stows her baby in a closet to steal a night out; a s

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    Publisher: Little Brown and Company
    Publication Date: 07/07/2020
    ISBN13: 9780316423403, 978-0316423403
    ISBN10: 0316423408
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    Description

    Book Synopsis
    A lightning bolt of a literary debut. ---Adam Johnson, Pulitzer Prize winner

    Enchanting and so neatly planed they feel made by time, these stories mark the debut of a writer to watch. ---John Freeman, Literary Hub

    Last One Out Shut Off the Lights is an evocative portrait of the last-chance towns of southwest Louisiana, where oil development, industrial pollution, dying wetlands, and the ever-present threat of devastating hurricanes have eroded their inhabitants'' sense of home. These eleven piercing stories feature indelible characters struggling to find a foothold in a world that is forever washing out from under them, people who must reckon with their ambivalence about belonging to a place so continually in flux.

    In a collection whose resonant echoes abound, we meet a reluctant teenage mother who stows her baby in a closet to steal a night out; a s

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