Weep for the Living
By Anne Butler
2000
First Published
3.56
Average Rating
312
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A respected retired criminologist picks up a pistol and shoots his wife five times as she rocks on her plantation home's gallery. WHY?? In this riveting book, the wife who miraculously survived provides some answers with remarkable candor, compassion, even humor. This is not fiction—it's stranger!
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Author
Anne Butler
Author · 3 books
Anne Butler, who also writes as Anne Butler Hamilton, is a native of St. Francisville and operates a bed and breakfast at the Butler Greenwood Plantation, which has been in her family since the 1790s. Motivated by her love of culture, she has reached a wide audience through articles published in the Los Angeles Times, Country Woman, New Orleans Magazine, and Country Road. She is also the author of Pelican's Audubon Plantation Country Cookbook, Bayou Plantation Country Cookbook, Acadian Plantation Country Cookbook, The Pelican Guide to Plantation Homes of Louisiana, and her memoir, Weep for the Living.
