All Saints' Day
by Brent Benoit

All Saints' Day is a bold and provocative southern novel in the tradition of Walker Percy and John Kennedy Toole. Brent Benoit's debut movingly chronicles two generations of the Bueche family of Maringouin, Louisiana, who have been defined by a tragedy—the accidental death of their gifted, infant child at the hands of his feeble twin brother.

In All Saints' Day the lives of simple people attain the status of myth, as the dynamic elements of fate, guilt, and reconciliation are woven together to produce a story that both captivates the reader in its rendering of a vanishing culture and surprises at every turn.

"A brilliantly original, dramatic, and moving tale of life in the Cajun country of Louisiana, with its dangerous oil rigs, decaying plantation houses, and intense loves and hatreds."
— Alison Lurie, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Foreign Affairs

"This vivid, original novel about Cajuns in Louisiana is often funny, always moving, even harrowing. All Saints' Day brings us a writer of great talent, and Brent Benoit gives us a fascinating glimpse of a community not often written about and perhaps vanishing."
— Diane Johnson, author of Le Divorce

"All Saints' Day offers a dark, mysterious, shadowy story set in the Cajun world of Louisiana. Readers will emerge from this book full of wonder about the ambiguous human alliances and shaky moral ground beneath a landscape as foreign as some spooky, far-off planet."
— Tim O'Brien, National Book Award-winning author of The Things They Carried