Author: Maggie Davis
Year: 1986
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Bonaventure is not a good place ... the stone houses and the marble ghosts press down....
"i come upon him in the front hall in the ugly
pier glass i use the name Lazarus
he has the fever now and knows it
and has prepared himself for death...."
"In the mirror it watches me...."
Lazarus: he "rose from the dead" off a derelict slave ship to control Georgia plantation blacks with a curious set of forbidden objects, the sticks, drums, and rattles of conjure -- obeah. Does his control -- and his anger -- extend beyond the grave?
Elizabeth Franklin "Frankie" Jefferson: descendant of slaveowners and apparent clairvoyant. Have she and her strange cousin Julian raised the specter of Lazarus, releasing the power of his deadly obeah? Why has Frankie's family started to die?
This is like no other novel of obsession and revenge.
Frankie Jefferson is like no other heroine in American fiction.
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