In "Season "(formerly titled "Voodoo" "Season"), Jewell Parker
Rhodes revisits the sensual, magical landscape of her highly
acclaimed debut novel, "Voodoo Dreams."
Marie Levant, raised in the North by foster parents, begins her
medical residency in New Orlean's Charity Hospital. Plagued by deja
vu and haunted by increasingly violent dreams, Marie tries to make
a life in a city that seems both foreign and familiar.
Without warning her world falls apart, for it is voodoo season: the
season of heat, humidity, the West Nile virus, of unexplained
deaths of young adults all with a mysterious symbol marked in red
clay on their foreheads. It is the season of babies cut from their
dead mother's wombs.
It is the season when the Guede, the death gods, haunt
Levant--whispering tales, sending memories and dreams of Marie
Laveau, a nineteenth century "voodooienne," who walked on water and
blended African "loas "with their Catholic saints, whispering tales
of a second Marie, who murdered her mother and brought evil to the
faith, whispering tales of a third Marie who died in a pool of
blood, after abandoning her child to an orphanage. Marie Levant,
the fourth Marie, must reclaim her heritage, reclaim the power of
voodoo drums transformed to a jazz lament, reclaim her spiritual,
womanist power. A contemporary epic and mythic tale, Marie learns
"women hand down sight through generations, mother to daughter."
She learns that love and passion can be intertwined, marriage and a
profession can mix, and that a woman's love can redeem a world. She
learns that there is no greater power than a mother's fierce
passion and that of a woman secure in her self identity, secure in
ancestral heritage as a black woman and a voodoo queen.
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