The Woolsack Family Series, Kent Wascom

Click here for information on the series. The New Inheritors is the most recent (#3) book.

Kent Wascom is one of the most exciting and ambitious emerging voices in American fiction. Envisaging a quartet of books telling the story of America through a single family and region, the Gulf Coast of the United States, Wascom began with his much-lauded debut, The Blood of Heaven, published when he was just twenty-six and praised as “stunning” by the Miami Herald, and “like the sermon of a revivalist preacher” by the Wall Street Journal. His second novel, Secessia, continues the story of the Woolsack family in Civil War New Orleans, and in The New Inheritors, he has written his most powerful and poignant novel yet.

-Goodreads

From the author at The Advocate:

“My first novel was about violence and religion,” Wascom said. “The second about the occupation of New Orleans, the third was my environmental book. The fourth? I don’t know yet.”

At once a love story and a family drama, a novel of nature and a novel of war, The New Inheritors traces a family whose life is intimately tied to the Gulf, that most disputed, threatened, and haunted part of this country we call America.

Goodreads Review

The New Inheritors: A Novel