Sweet as Cane, Salty as Tears

De: Ken Wheaton

Narrado por: Erin Moon

A freak accident forces a New Yorker to return to Louisiana and confront her Cajun past.

There is nothing more dangerous than a spooked rhinoceros. It is just before lunchtime when Huey, the prized black rhino of Broussard, Louisiana, erupts from his enclosure, trampling a zoo employee on his way to a rampage in the Cajun countryside. The incident makes the rounds online as "news of the weird", and Katherine Fontenot is laughing along with the rest of her New York office when she notices the name of the hurt zookeeper: Karen-Anne Castille--her sister.

Fifty years old, lonely, and in danger of being laid off, Katherine has spent decades trying to ignore her Louisiana roots. Forced home by Karen-Anne's accident, she remembers everything about the bayou she wanted to escape: the heat, the mosquitoes, and the constant, crushing embrace of family. But when forced to confront the ghosts of her past, she discovers that escape might never have been necessary.

©2014 Ken Wheaton, This edition published in 2014 by Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. (P)2015 Audible Inc.

Good read... for true!

Touching story. As a native Louisianian, the story rings true and the landmarks are familiar. The narration fails, at times, with pronunciation of Cajun lingo, but the story more than makes up for it.