Belle Douleur Author:Melissa Clair Bourgeois Eva is a pragmatic dreamer, raised by an acquiescent mother and schizophrenic father in a small Cajun town in the heart of the Louisiana bayou. As she prepares to marry before her 21st birthday, Eva begins questioning the greater meanings of experience, exploration and evolution. After testing the boundaries of her own reality, she finds herself... more » faced with a loss that will force her to either perish in, or awaken from, a beautifully anguished dance of existence.« less