Description:

This is a story about a woman named Lucy. The one thing she wants more than anything else is a child. But because of her handicap she is unable to have one. Lucy visits a fortune teller, Lady Rene. She tells Lucy she can help her have a child, "but first, my dear, you must do something for me." That something leads a nice, average woman to do some illegal things. As for Lady Rene, she might have magical powers, and she might be mentally ill. A young man named Snoz is consumed with winning back Emily, his lost love. Emily is bright and determined, a gallery director in New Orleans with a secret. Snoz is drawn into a situation he doesn't want to be in, and he reacts in ways a listless artistic young man normally would not. The story moves from a fairy tale to a workplace to the cramped, narrow streets of the French Quarter in New Orleans, in the days before Katrina. It is written in a few different styles, in 27 short chapters, and it aspires to be engaging literature.