Kate Lynn has devoted years to bringing her talented, fragile sister Martha’s extraordinary art to the world, while her own life has never quite gotten off the ground. One day, a package arrives from an old friend, a message that will call Kate back to Pascagoula Mississippi, where an Indian tribe had walked into a river rather than be conquered, and where she and Martha began the journey they were now being called to complete. Readers who loved The Help, Swamplandia! and The Secret Life of Bees will enjoy The Last of the Pascagoula.
Rebecca Meredith is a writer, poet and psychotherapist in private practice in Seattle, Washington. Although she now lives in the Pacific Northwest, she grew up on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and lived in New Orleans, her heart's home. Her writing reflects her deep sense of connection to the magic of that region, its sensual beauty and its long, conflicted history.
Rebecca's poetry and prose has appeared in numerous literary magazines, publications and anthologies and has been featured on Seattle's NPR affiliate. In 2010 she was selected as the first poet laureate of the city of Redmond Washington, where she has been involved in the literary arts for many years.
"I'm told my poetry tells stories and that my stories are poetic, and for me that's the best of both worlds. Writing a novel allowed me to create full lives for people who have been in my head, and in various forms in my stories and poems, for years. They come from a place, both real and in my imagination, that got inside me early and has never let me go. I love the odd ducks, the marginals, the people you see every day but who live around the edges of Southern culture and must find themselves within its rich, and often difficult, context."
