Genre: Novel
Grade: A-
Notable People: James Lee Burke
Title: Feast Day of Fools
Review –If you haven’t read Burke-shame on you. A living American master. He has written the magnificent Dave Robicheaux series, set in the Louisiana Bayou, for over 25 years. If you’ve read these –you are probably a big fan. In more recent years he started a companion series about an aged Texas lawman, Hackberry Holland- a Korean war vet whit countless demons in his closet, trying to come to grips with his life, his mortality and the world around him in his eighth decade. There are a lot of similarities between the two series- but mostly they are just really well written, suspenseful, and soulful stories of an America very few of us are really aware of. Burke is an American treasure and still going really strong is his 80s. Classic Americana in every sense of the word.