Elijah Rising by Lyn LeJeune
The story of the Ishmael-like friendship between two young men: a wealthy white New Yorker, Michael Cooke Holt, and a black tent-fundamentalist preacher, Elijah Broom, set in that period of turmoil and crisis in American history in which scientific marvels, social unrest, economic disasters, and the First World War, created new vistas about the individual and the nation. Available on inGroupPress.com (with free shipping), Amazon.com, all major e-book devices, and in stores.
Literary Fiction/Gay Interest
Paperback
List Price: $14.95
Pages: 180
ISBN: 978-1935725084
Professional Reviews of Elijah Rising
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About the author: Lyn LeJeune Lyn LeJeune is the author of several novels. Her stories have been published in literary journals such as Big Muddy: A Journal of The Mississippi River Valley (East Missouri University), The Bishop’s House Review (Duke), The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, Nantahala, Milestone, Identity Theory, Our Stories, Demolition Magazine and Stone Table Review, and The Best of Our Stories. She was recipient of the Paris Writers’ Institute Scholarship for study in Paris, France. Lyn studied writing at Skidmore, where she worked with Marilynne Robinson and Mary Gordon, Duke, and the Breadloaf Writers Conference.
Lyn routinely holds seminars on writing and development of oral history projects and has a gift for one-on-one conversation, communicating with large audiences, and working with smaller audiences in venues such as book clubs and seminars.
One of Lyn’s first readers for Elijah Rising was Howard Zinn, who commented: “I read it in two sittings, became involved in the story. You write very well! Best wishes, Howard Zinn”
Lyn is 100% Cajun and makes the best gumbo in South Louisiana.