Overview

Story is as strong as reality. When Etoile moves to New Orleans, she leaves behind in Mississippi a childhood of loss, a host of conflicting memories, and a lot of dead people. Only one of whom perished under suspicious circumstances. But there are rules for living in a magical city such as New Orleans. Etoile realizes this the moment she accidentally conjures a castle and a prince. And a saint. And her three ancestral grannies. The prince is desperate to find his would-be assassin. Since murder runs in the family, Etoile and her grannies join the quest, and their often-risible, sometimes-precarious trek compels the krewe through history, family, and the inscrutable city. As they search for the fiend, Etoile and the prince-separately and as one-regress and come of age again. Sometimes destiny arrives in a mist and lingers like the blush of good wine. Award winning Southern writer Ellen Morris Prewitt invokes a surrealistic dream state in When We Were Murderous Time-Traveling Women. Flawlessly set in New Orleans, this fantastic tale of self-discovery will energize the resolve and lighten the spirit.

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Exhilarating. The journey, an unexpectedly concrete one through dreams and relationships past, takes the reader not only into the wonder of a person's inner life, but through the city of New Orleans itself. And that's not half shabby, even without the time traveling grandmothers, the pretender to the French throne, the odd dead rat, and a heroine struggling with her own murderous rage. That rage is the rage of women everywhere, and there's a road map here of how to transform it in the end. Pure visionary fiction. -Tod Davies, editorial director of Exterminating Angel Press and author of The History of Arcadia visionary fiction series What I've long admired about Ellen Morris Prewitt's writing is fourfold: a boundless imagination, a careful devotion to language, exceptional sensory detail, and pure fearlessness.All those qualities are on full display in this new book which cements her position as one of our best storytellers. Throw in a few unforgettable characters thriving and surviving against a backdrop of troubled history and deep South landscape, and you have an unforgettable novel. We get to meet the narrator's grannies-Tip-Top, Bigmama, and Elfy-summoned for their assistance with a tricky situation. And maybe that's the moral of this story: that our pasts and our predecessors are always there with us, waiting just an incantation away. -Dr. Randy Mackin, Editor-in-Chief, Porchlight: A Journal of Southern Literature I love everything about this book. I want to eat it with a spoon. - Marisa Whitsett Baker, avid reader and former bookseller

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ELLEN MORRIS PREWITT is an award-winning author who has pinged around the American South like a long-distance pinball. The humorous stories in her audio collection, Cain't Do Nothing with Love, have been downloaded over 50,000 times worldwide; the collection won the CIPA EVVY Audio Book Award. Her stories have twice been nominated for the Pushcart Prize; one received an Honorable Mention. She's a former lawyer and obsessive swimmer. She loves hand-sewing, Godzilla, beignets with café au lait, and leading writing groups. She's a former Peter Taylor Fellow and currently serves as Writer-in Residence at 100 Men Hall, an iconic Mississippi Blues site. She's been extensively published, including in Luna Station Quarterly, Porchlight: A Journal of Southern Literature, Gulf Coast, Unleash Lit, Image, Barrelhouse, Brevity, Arkansas Review, and EAP the Magazine. She splits her time between Memphis, the Gulf Coast, and New Orleans where she (and her husband and her dog...and her house) can frequently be found in costume. Check out her writing journey at EllenMorrisPrewitt.com. When We Were Murderous Time-Traveling Women is her first traditionally-published novel. https: //writing.exchange/@ellenmorrisprewittInstagram @VEMPhaha

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