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Chita: A Memory of Last Island
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Set against the 1856 hurricane that destroyed Louisiana's Last Island, this short novel by Lafcadio Hearn follows a child who survives the disaster. It will interest readers of Gulf Coast history, Louisiana literature, and nineteenth-century American fiction.
Lafcadio Hearn
Patrick Lafcadio Hearn was a Greek and Irish writer, translator, and teacher whose work played a significant role in the introduction of the culture and literature of Japan to the mainstream Western world.
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