Economy Hall: The Hidden History of a Free Black Brotherhood
Fatima Shaik
The Historic New Orleans Collection
The author's father rescues a century's worth of journals, hand-written in French, from a trash hauler's pick up truck - and from the journal's pages emerges a portrait of one of the most important multiethnic, intellectual communities in the US South. Shaik has written a meticulously detailed nonfiction narrative that reads like an epic novel.