Riverman

by Mark Seghers

The world knows New Orleans for its cuisine, music, and corruption, its wetlands and unique traditions. It is less well-known as the cultural capital of Cancer Alley and of a region rapidly eroding into the Gulf of Mexico, one football field an hour. Part elegy, part magical quest, Riverman tells the tale of one man's mission to save what he sees as the epicenter of everything wrong with America, and how he drags his friend along for the ride. More than a Louisiana yarn, the novel tugs at old themes – Gilgamesh, Arthurian sagas, Don Quixote, T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" – and explores the basic human desires to love and strive, to overcome grief, to affect the world, to be remembered.

456 pages, Paperback

Published September 22, 2020

About the author

Born and raised in South Louisiana, Mark has traveled, lived and worked around the world. He graduated from the School of Journalism, University of Missouri, and from the law school of Loyola University in New Orleans. In order to support his fiction habit, he has worked as a Mississippi River deckhand, bar tender, grass cutter, journalist, teacher and attorney. He currently lives about an hour north of New Orleans. Like Streams In Sand is his first novel.