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In the summers of the early 1970s, Morris Ardoin and his siblings helped run their family's roadside motel in a hot, buggy, bayou town in Cajun Louisiana. The stifling, sticky heat inspired them to find creative ways to stay cool and out of trouble. When they were not doing their chores--handling a colorful cast of customers, scrubbing motel-room toilets, plucking chicken bones and used condoms from under the beds--they played canasta, an old ladies' game that provided them with a refuge from the sun and helped them avoid their violent, troubled father.

Morris was successful at occupying his time with his siblings and the children of families staying in the motel's kitchenette apartments but was not so successful at keeping clear of his father, a man unable to shake the horrors he had experienced as a child and, later, as a soldier. The preteen would learn as he matured that his father had reserved his most ferocious attacks for him because of an inability to accept a gay or, to his mind, broken, son. It became his dad's mission to "fix" his son, and Morris's mission to resist--and survive intact. He was aided in his struggle immeasurably by the love and encouragement of a selfless and generous grandmother, who provides his story with much of its warmth, wisdom, and humor. There's also suspense, awkward romance, naughty French lessons, and an insider's take on a truly remarkable, not-yet-homogenized pocket of American culture.

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  • Title Stone Motel: Memoirs of a Cajun Boy
  • Author Morris Ardoin
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 280
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University Press of Mississippi
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Dust Cover, Illustrated
  • ISBN 9781496827722 / 1496827724
  • Weight 1.3 lbs (0.59 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.5 x 1.2 in (23.11 x 16.51 x 3.05 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: South
    • Sex & Gender: Gay
    • Topical: Lgbt
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects Autobiographies, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2019044436
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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  • Foreword, 04/26/2020, Page 0

About the author

Morris Ardoin has written for organizations with missions that focus on health care, global migration, poverty, human rights, and education. His blog, Parenthetically Speaking, features entries on cooking, LGBTQ literature, and life as a Cajun New Yorker, and can be found at www.morrisardoin.com.
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