Moon
A jazzman, a wharf worker, a prostitute, all murdered. Wrists punctured, their bodies impossibly drained of blood. What connects them? Why are they rising as ghosts?
Marie Levant, the great-great granddaughter of the Voodoo Queen, Marie Laveau knows better than anyone New Orleans’ brutal past—the legacy of slavery, poverty, racism and sexism—and as a Doctor at Charity Hospital’s ER, she treats its current victims. When she sleeps, she dreams of blood. Rain, never-ending.
The river is rising and the yellow moon warns of an ancient evil: an African vampire “wazimamoto,” a spirit created by colonial oppression. The struggle becomes personal, as the wazimamoto is intent on destroying Marie and all the Laveau descendents. Marie fights to protect her daughter, lover, and herself from the wazimamoto’s seductive assault on both body and spirit.
Echoing with the heartache and triumph of the African American experience, the soulful rhythms of jazz, and the horrors of racial oppression, Moon gives us an unforgettable heroine — sexy, vulnerable, and mysterious — in Marie Levant, while it powerfully evokes a city on the brink of catastrophe. Part two of the New Orleans trilogy that began with Season.
Read an interview with Jewell discussing Yellow Moon at Hermitosis.
