The King of Cups
A Novel
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New Orleans. 1905. Yellow Fever! With the death of their parents, sixteen-year old Marty Mckinstry and his brother and sister.are sent to separate homes. As Marty fights to reunite his family, they endure abusive orphanages, a voodoo baptism, bare-knuckle prize fighting, forced snake handling, and death threats from a powerful shipping magnate, Reginald Landus. When Marty meets and falls in love with a rancher’s daughter, Celeste Byrd, her rejected suitor, Gavin York, follows them to New Orleans, vowing to kill them. The novel explores the depth of family love, as well as the love between a man and a woman
About the Author
James Quina, a native of Mobile, Alabama, mentored with playwright, Abe Polsky in Carpenteria, California. He has published short stories in Southern University of New Orleans Review and The Journal of College Writing and literary-critical essays in Studies in the Novel, The Journal of Mind and Behavior, and Paunch. He received a Ph.D. in English Education from University of Alabama and an MA in English from University of Southern Mississippi. He taught courses in English Education, Composition and Literature for Adolescents at Wayne State University in Detroit, and is currently an adjunct faculty member in English at University of Santa Barbara in California and at Delgado Community College in New Orleans.