Petrochemical Nocturne

"The Mississippi River. Petrochemical plants. New Orleans Saints football. Chlorine gas ghost ships. Cancer Alley. Hazmat symbols. The pink flamingos of Spanish Town. Radio Free Dixie. The removal of the General Robert E. Lee statue at Lee Circle - Set in Baton Rouge and New Orleans, Petrochemical Nocturne explores themes of environmental justice, climate change, and community erasure. Two narrators, one Black and one White, mutually disentangle their family histories which flow as gnarled and turbid as the Mississippi River"--