Should the Waters Take Us: A Novel Stephanie Burgis then divided by deceit

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Should the Waters Take Us: A Novel Stephanie Burgis then divided by deceitAn epic literary debut that follows one family across four centuries, from France to Acadia to the bayous of Southern Louisianaa poignant examination of belonging, place, and how individual, self interested acts of moral compromise contribute to cycles of injustice and destruction. In the shifting bayous of coastal Louisiana, on a rapidly disappearing spit of land, generations of Acadians have kept their heads above water any way they can. When an