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Rambunctious and poignant, Blaine Lourd’s moseying coming-of-age memoir, Born on the Bayou, takes readers to the swampy, misty marshes of his youth in New Iberia, Louisiana. While Lourd regales us with tales of his two brothers, his sister and mother, it’s his father who stands tall at the center of the story. Harvey “Puffer” Lourd…

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Publisher’s Weekly

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First-time author Lourd, a Beverly Hills businessman, declares that his early life in New Iberia in the lowest part of Louisiana—“the heart of Cajun country”—is never far from his mind in this sensitive and funny memoir. Lourd’s story is dominated by the imposing figure of his father, Harvey “Puffer” Lourd, a truck driver who rode…

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A memoir of life in the “lowest part of Louisiana…arguably the wettest, wildest, and freest part of the country.” Lourd, now an investment banker in Los Angeles, grew up in a place so remote that even his Cajun neighbors called it “the country,” a bit of raised land in the middle of the world’s largest…

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