DEBUT NOVEL NOW AVAILABLE:

“LaCour manages to imbue the story with such a palpable atmospheric density that weeks after finishing the read, one can still feel the location as if it were a personal memory.”

—Ralph Adamo, author, editor, Xavier Review

The Meeting of Air and Water, Sharon’s debut novel, follows the paths of two women: a young and fragile Cajun girl in 1920 coastal Louisiana whose life is transformed by the gift of a camera; and her granddaughter, 60 years later, whose discovery of her grandmother’s life and work changes and heals an entire family. The novel was inspired by the photographs of Fonville Winans* who documented Louisiana Cajun life in the 1920s.

Dolores wrapped her fingers around strands of her hair and held them to her mouth. When the breeze stopped, the water turned still as brown-green glass, then the breeze came again, and the sun broke into tiny sparks. Mosquito hawks bounced off the dark water, and the sun glowed through their lace-etched wings.

praise for the meeting of air and water:

In Sharon LaCour’s debut novel, The Meeting of Air and Water, we are taken deep into the mystery and harsh reality of two women’s struggles for life, for art, for freedom… LaCour does not allow her heroines to escape the pain of their lives, and because of that, we are able to see the love that prevails. LaCour’s writing is that rare combination: lush and lyrical, stark and honest. This is a wonderful book! —Patrick Cabello Hansel, author of The Devouring Land, Quitting Time and Breathing in Minneapolis

…in this multi-generational tale she moves between lush, hard-scrabble Cajun country life of the early 20th century and New Orleans nearing the fin de siecle… LaCour has created characters and scenes in prose that is flawlessly engaging and always economical. In these vivid characters’ lives, she deftly reveals the grace that guides the lives of decent people through storms of every kind. —Ralph Adamo, author, editor, Xavier Review

LaCour has penned a novel grounded in down-to-earth realism…she is an insider, having grown up around the Cajun people she has chosen to write about, and is herself of Louisiana French descent… LaCour depicts lives neither caricatured nor idealized, but weaves a tale that comes across as natural, unaffected, and most of all believable. — Shane K. Bernard, author of The Cajuns: Americanization of a People

*Contact Sharon for a special signed copy including a limited edition Fonville Winans print