Down at the End of the River

An elderly crook has trouble sticking to a vow to stop terrorizing his New Orleans neighborhood. A Baton Rouge couple's stable marriage is disrupted by a Katrina refugee from abroad. A returning Gulf War veteran struggles to resume an unfinished romance with her best friend. An unplanned streetcar ride unveils a racial divide. In these ten stories, Angus Woodward gives us a tour of south Louisiana as his characters tiptoe out of the corners into which they have painted themselves.