Patti Lacy
By editor on Apr 20, 2009 in Featured, Women's Fiction
What the Bayou Saw: A Novel
by Patti Lacy
Patti Lacy graduated from Baylor University in 1977 with a B.S. in education. She taught at Heartland Community College in Normal, Illinois, until she retired in 2006 to pursue writing full time. She has two grown children with her husband, Alan, and lives in Illinois.
About the Book
Segregation and a chain link fence separated twelve-year-old Sally Flowers from her best friend, Ella Ward. Yet a brutal assault bound them together. Forever. Thirty-eight years later, Sally, a middle-aged Midwestern instructor, dredges up childhood secrets long buried beneath the waters of a Louisiana bayou in order to help her student, who has also been raped. Fragments of spirituals, gospel songs, and images of a Katrina-ravaged New Orleans are woven into the story.
As some of you have guessed, What the Bayou Saw is the story of my heart. Thank you, Kregel, for the myriad of things you’ve done to make this special, including the decision to include the Christmas card art of a New Orleans eleven-year-old, who just happens to be…my niece Jordan.
Visit Patti’s website at www.pattilacy.com.
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Lovely, Patti,
Thank you for sharing your gift of self.
Lisa
Lisa Lickel | Apr 20, 2009 | Reply
I am blessed to call this author “friend” and can attest that she is as genuine as a reader always hopes. Her personal life is packed with selfless acts of kindness to friends and strangers alike, somehow tucked in between all those hours of writing. Her stories are vital and boldly honest in a hurting world that is crying out for Christians to be real. Her strong, beautifully descriptive writing style stretches the extra mile in an effort to heal broken hearts and battered souls. Her novels are not only enjoyable, but they are prescriptions for the wounded.
Cammie Quinn | Apr 20, 2009 | Reply
Betty Smith! I love that book, too. Thanks for sharing your heart– can’t wait to read your latest novel, Patti!!
Kasey Heinly | Apr 21, 2009 | Reply
I’m humbled by hearing from some great writers. Hope What the Bayou Saw causes soul-searching and healing!!
Patti
patti lacy | Apr 23, 2009 | Reply
How wonderful to see Patti featured here. She is such a blessing in my life and she’s an awesome writer. I enjoyed her first book so much. And I really want to read this one. I really do, Patti!
Dineen Miller | Apr 29, 2009 | Reply