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allow up to three weeks for delivery. For those of us who
never quite grasped the tragic depth of Hurricane Katrina’s
2005 inundation of New Orleans, Tess Nottebohm’s
new novel, Sultry Days of Blood and Angels,
is a prose poem reminding us how fragile, beautiful, tragic, erotic
and utterly sui generis was and is the Crescent City. Sultry
Days is confected from the bitter-sweet urban
archeology of a place that for three-hundred years has lived a few
frightening meters of water away from extinction and lived, therefore,
that much closer to the edge. It is that rich boundary teeming with
life, sex, voodoo and death and the inescapable tie to
Creole customs and cuisine that is an irreducible part of the
richness of 19th Century New Orleans so convincingly captured and
elegantly served up in Tess Nottebohm’s Sultry
Days of Blood and Angels. ~ Richard Rapaport, author, journalist, and visiting Scholar
at UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies This first novel by
Tess Nottebohm is
a stunning achievement. The nineteenth century New Orleans she recreates
is a dark carnival of enigma and magic, brimming with resplendent eroticism
and intoxicating sexuality. Nottebohm takes us on a wild
ride, but the thrills are not gratuitous; along the way she grapples with
moral and existential ambiguities that resonate today. ~ Susan Landauer, San Francisco Bay Area, curator, art
historian and author Sultry Days of Blood and Angels
is a lush journey into history, identity, and passion.
The threadbare pages of an old man's antique journal burst with a Pandora's
Box of deep-bayou intrigue—spurring a modern young adventuress
to seek her own destiny through the journal's account of three wildly
compelling female characters. Author Tess Nottebohm
brings to vibrant life the mansions and back roads of old New Orleans
with exhilaration and gutsy sensuality. Each bodice-ripping, mind-bending
escapade is injected with a raw, unconventional twist on relationships,
self-awareness, and the elusive nature of time itself. Nottebohm's
satisfied readers will end up scouring flea markets everywhere for lace
cravats, muslin bloomers, and dusty Cajun talismans! ~ Stephanie JT Russell, author, One Flashing of Lightning:
A Samurai Path for Living the Moment "I have gotten deeper into your book and I just love how
much it has shared with me about you the author...what perspective on such
an amazing human being as yourself...drinking the rich brew you
have crafted has made yummy on the tongue of my mind..
~ Captain Erotica, Superhero and ErotiCoach
"The issue here is, my dearest Tess, is that once
one enters the gates of Chez Mystiphi, one wishes never return to life as
it was once known... longing instead to lounge in the timeless beauty of
the Sultry Days."
~ Zenovia , Healing Art, Sacred Folk Art©
