Stone Motel: Memoirs of a Cajun Boy is the story of a gay preteen,
his seven siblings, their violent father, overwhelmed mother,
unstoppable grandmother, and the sordid array of customers they
encounter at their family's roadside motel, situated in the hot,
prairie town of Eunice, Louisiana. When half of the motel burns in
a Christmastime fire, the family scrambles to get back on their
feet and get things moving again. The fire rekindles the father's
long-repressed violent nature, and while he attacks several of his
children, he reserves his most ferocious beatings for his second
son whom he feels needs "fixing." When they were not working at the
Stone Motel, Morris Ardoin and his siblings played canasta, an "old
ladies" card game, which provided a refuge from the blistering
summer sun and helped them avoid their mercurial father, a man
unable to shake the horrors he had experienced as a child and,
later, as a soldier. In this memoir, Ardoin provides an episodic
narrative, detailing the sweet, sometimes awkward, often funny
memories of his family, but moves beyond the personal to also
document Louisiana life in the 1960s and 1970s. Through his
descriptions of the regional French dialect spoken by his elders,
to nostalgic images of places lost to time and progress, a unique
portrait of a small community in Cajun Louisiana unfolds. Moving
from childhood into adulthood, Ardoin's story speaks to what shapes
a life-location, culture, language, heritage, and family.
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