"Southern Cross the Dog," a new novel by Bill Cheng, features the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 as a plot point. Above, a photograph of Greenville, Miss., after the flood.
From its opening pages, “Southern Cross the Dog” has all the markers of a novel written in the finest Southern gothic tradition. The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 sweeps in, taking a few unlucky characters with it. There are references aplenty to race, poverty, the blues, voodoo and an ill-fated brothel.
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