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Killing John Kanton is a story in which two men, both
children of the 1950's, by chance meet on a Mississippi
Gulf coast, deserted pier about a year after the Katrina
catastrophe. Both are looking for resolution. Through a
night of conversation they explore the subject matter of
their lives as well as a few bottles of booze.

One of the men, affectionately known only as the white
guy, is what New Orleanians, also affectionately, refer to
as a transplant. A transplant in New Orleans is a person
who regards themselves as a New Orleanian but was
not born or raised anywhere near it. They generally feel
fortunate to have found New Orleans in their path, and
they regard it as an oasis in what they call, when they are
feeling particularly smug, the desert of American culture.
In personal crisis "yet again," the white guy finds himself
in the throws of "another" drunken splurge and, in "yet
another" aimless, random search. Somewhere along the
Gulf of Mexico, he meets up with Leroy Fuller McKinna.

Leroy is a native, born-and-raised New Orleanian who
came up in the notorious poverty and crime found in
what was and is called Central City. The 1950 and 1960
New Orleans experienced a significant make-over as the
Civil Rights Movement succeeded in making racism out
of vogue and impolite. Leroy is a black man, a child of his culture, and fully, in speech and manner, New Orleans. The white guy, as Leroy's transcriber, has tempered (but not eliminated) Leroy's regional-ness to facilitate what he hopes will be the average reader's literary palate. We experience that night and learn how Leroy, a good man, came to murder John Kanton, another good man.

Fiction: Historical Fiction

Toby Wraye

2014

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