Fiction. Scott Elys latest novel is the chronicle of two downriver journeysdisparate in time but oddly merging in intensity and finally intent. WhenRobert Day d... » 

Fiction. Scott Elys latest novel is the chronicle of two downriver journeysdisparate in time but oddly merging in intensity and finally intent. WhenRobert Day discovers a French diary written by an exslave named Octaviuswhofled to Haiti after murdering his master and his lover for initiating plansto take a wifehe immediately decides to imitate Octavius journey down PearlRiver to the Gulf of Mexico driven by his own grief over his murdered wife.But as Robert travels and translates the diary he learns just how terriblyviolent Octavius escape was. And that violence soon emerges not only inRoberts life but in the lives of the three men accompanying him on thejourney. «