Mamou: A Novel

Warner, Chris  with Brad Lee Patterson

A washed up architect and denizen of Perdido Key, Florida spends a reveling pre-Mardi Gras weekend with an old friend at the world-famous Flora-Bama, where they concoct a plan to acquire accomplices in Mobile and New Orleans, on successive nights and to rob the Mamou State Bank in Mamou, Louisiana during the drunken early morning hours of Ash Wednesday. The architect and old friend draw up more fun than money, and in the end each cohort finds themselves and new friends in this colorful romp across the hypnotic, haunted carnival jewels of the Dirty South.