Poor Banished Children of Eve

About the Book

POOR BANISHED CHILDREN OF EVE By Carol Morgan In the tradition of Faulkner, Poor Banished Children of Eve is the haunting saga of the Avery/Dupre clan of Maringouin County, Mississippi, a family tormented by a history of incest and insanity. The story revolves around beautiful, tempestuous Angelique Avery whose mother Solange, has recently committed suicide. It was Angelique who found her swinging from an attic rafter with a drapery cord around her neck. Solange had spent the past 21 years, since Angelique’s birth, locked in an upstairs bedroom “mad as a hatter,”as the townspeople said, a fact, however, that no one seems to find peculiar. After all, doesn’t everyone have an insane woman locked in an upstairs bedroom? As the story begins, Angelique is about to be married to Charles Carleton, a “suitable young man,” with a secret and twisted torment of his own, and her impending marriage is breaking the hearts of the town’s young swains, not the least of which, two of her brothers. Thus begins the first tremors of a tidal wave of tragedy that sweeps over the family and the residents of Jezreel, Mississippi in a miasma of murder, insanity, incest and suicide, to finally reach an explosive and unorthodox climax.

About the Author

Carol Morgan grew up in a family steeped in Southern lore and tradition, and has been writing since she was six years old. “I write the kind of fiction I, myself, like to read,” she says. She currently lives in Houston, Texas, and has two sons, a daughter, a grandson, and a cat. She is a paralegal in the legal department of a corporation. She is at work on After This Our Exile, the sequel to Poor Banished Children of Eve.