ASIN: B00OQKUALE
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 208
Nobody’s Here But Us is a story about the difference between the truth and a lie, and how they both can mold our lives and control every aspect of us. The prologue introduces a short story that replaces the Creation story in the Bible. Instead of “In the Beginning”, it uses fairy tale words “Once upon a time.” The prologue sheds a new light on the stories and fables that we have heard for most of our lives. The actual story takes place in the mid 1800’s in southern Louisiana, near Orleans during slavery. The main religion in the region is Catholic. The majority of the slaves practices Voodoo and worship the African god Dhumballa.The main characters are twin freed slaves, Octavius and Octavia. Somehow, nature has given then the wrong bodies. He has more female hormones and she has more male hormones. This is shown more as they get older. Their mother, Ma Onnie, bore seventeen ...
