{"product_id":"ash-tuesday-ariadne-blayde-paperback","title":"Ash Tuesday -- Ariadne Blayde, Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn New Orleans, the dead talk and the living listen. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGiving ghost tours on the decaying streets of the French Quarter isn't exactly a high-profile career, but the guides at Spirits of Yore Haunted Tours are too strange and troubled to do anything else. They call themselves Quarter Rats, a group of outcasts and dreamers and goths who gather in hole-in-the-wall bars to bicker, spin yarns, and search for belonging in the wee hours of the night after the tourists have staggered home. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough the ghost stories they tell, their own haunted lives come into focus. Like the city they call home, these tour guides are messy with contradiction: they suffer joyfully, live morbidly, and sin to find salvation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWeaving together real New Orleans folklore with the lives of eleven unforgettably vibrant characters, \u003cem\u003eAsh Tuesday \u003c\/em\u003eis a love letter to America's last true bohemia and the people, both dead and living, who keep its heart beating. With her debut, Blayde has carved out a deep and uber-readable interpretation of what it means to live, love, and grieve in New Orleans.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"There's something about New Orleans. Maybe you can trace it to Latin America or the Caribbean or maybe not, maybe you can't define it at all. The divine? The diabolical? I don't know what to call it. But there's magic, here.\" \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ariadne Blayde\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e April Gloaming Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/22\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.68lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.25h x 5.50w x 0.76d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781953932099","brand":"Ariadne Blayde","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49619434963172,"sku":"9781953932099","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0611\/9587\/8628\/files\/9781953932099.jpg?v=1786348153","url":"https:\/\/bookandmortar.com\/products\/ash-tuesday-ariadne-blayde-paperback","provider":"BookandMortar","version":"1.0","type":"link"}