The Farm

No prison gets more mention than the infamous Angola Prison. The Farm is where the hard time is served. Some of the testimonials of Angola paint a realm devoid of any hope, lately it has at least begun to focus on the next stage of the inmates lives and rehabilitation. The Farm that Dave and the natives speak of is an Angola of chain gangs, unjust beatings, solitary confinements, the kind of jail that conjures images of Cool Hand Luke.

The even appear to have an annual rodeo, who knew?

General Vocab

Octoroons, Redbone, Quadroon, Quintroon,

Nazi's, I hate these Guys

Having just finished Dixie City Jam, I found myself once again coming up against the Neo-Nazi as a villian. I say once again because just this past month I have seen the Neo-Nazi appear in the films Frontier(s), Outpost, and now here they are in the book I just read. The Neo-Nazi is one of the great villians because nobody goes out of their way to defend them publicly. You never read about them protesting at the opening of Indiana Jones films. These mothers are considered pretty vile no matter how you slice it, and you can make them as cold, cruel, evil as you want.

Will Buchalter in this book is one of the great evil human characters. Similar in some ways to Legion in Jolie Blonde's Bounce, Will violates the Robichaux household in haunting and graphic manners. His group the Sword I think may be a fictional creation, but there are articles to be found on other groups in this story, namely the AB.

Hometown

I felt that the best place to begin would probably be Dave's hometown. New Iberia is roughly 135 miles west of New Orleans and is 1, 735 miles from your driveway. Dave lives in the home his father built with lumber he cut himself. It is Dave's safe haven, the land where he can live his life in a romanticized recreation of the past that he misses.