Whitney J. LeBlanc has written the saga of a Creole family from
Estilette Louisiana, against the backdrop of the birth of the
blues. In the 1930's Phillip Fergerson's marriage to Martha, the
beautiful Creole woman of his dreams turns into nightmares. Instead
of becoming the doctor he promised to be, he becomes a high school
teacher, and events of murder, lynching, voodoo and sexual abuse by
a priest, set in motion the disintegration of the family. Martha's
brother, Lightfoot, performs blues music in the juke-joints as he
witnesses the beginning of the blues as an art form. We follow the
early blues legends from Robert Johnson, to Bessie Smith to
Leadbelly to Lightinn' Hopkins and BB King as they sing their way
through the Delta. Martha, a proud and devoted Catholic, looks on
in horror as one by one of her family falls under the influence of
the devil%u2019s gut-bucket music. With his marriage falling apart,
Phillip finds himself in the arms of a woman from his past. Each of
the four children go their separate ways and Martha blames it all
of the influence of the sinful music. She takes her revenge. It is
a story filled with love, lust, murder, voodoo and adventure. One
reviewer writes, "I couldn't put it down until I read the whole
thing. Only when I got to the last page I was looking for more."
Louisiana native Whitney J. LeBlanc has been a teacher, writer,
producer, set designer and award winning theatre director. He holds
a Master's Degree in Theatre Arts Production from the University of
Iowa. He has spent more than half of his fifty year professional
career in Hollywood as a television director of "Sitcoms," "The
Young and the Restless" and "Generations." LeBlanc now lives in the
Napa Valley with his physician wife and writes novels and creates
stained glass windows for churches.
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