Station of the Birds

Disinherited while attending college in New Orleans, Daryl Munroe returns to his hometown in Louisiana's Atchafalaya Swamp, planning to intimidate his father by setting up an illegal smuggling business. He joins forces with his childhood friend, Michael Duvet, the son of a local jazz musician. His attempt at vengeance becomes a mysterious quest in an area steeped in myth and generational lore and riven by entrenched barriers of class and race. Part fever dream, part cautionary tale, Station of the Birds spins a narrative about fathers and sons, addiction's hollow banging at the gate, and the ritual sacrifices rooted in agrarian cultures.

Betsy Sussler attended Newcomb, the women's college of Tulane University in New Orleans and graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute with a BFA in 1974. She co-founded BOMB Magazine in 1981 to publish conversations between artists and writers that reflected the way they spoke about the work among themselves and has been its Editor in Chief ever since. Sussler has edited five anthologies: BOMB Interviews, City Lights (1991); BOMB: Speak Art! (1997), Speak Fiction and Poetry! (1998) and Speak Theater and Film! (1999), published by Gordon and Breach; and The Author Interviews (2014) published by Soho Press. This is her first novel, Station of the Birds, written in the late 90s. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York with her two felines, Calliope and Woody Ray.