{"product_id":"ash-tuesday","title":"Ash Tuesday","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\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 1953932096\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9781953932099\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Blayde, Ariadne, N\/A, N\/A\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: April Gloaming Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"April Gloaming Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Mar 2022)","offer_id":45659233484997,"sku":"9781953932099","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9781953932099.jpg?v=1768907225","url":"https:\/\/www.inveni.store\/products\/ash-tuesday","provider":"Inveni","version":"1.0","type":"link"}