When Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans, chef and widower Simon Fortier
knows how he plans to face the storm--riding it out inside his long-time
home in the city's Treme neighborhood, just as he has through so many
storms before. But when the levees break and the city is torn apart,
Simon disappears. His son Julian a celebrated jazz trumpeter, rushes
home to a New Orleans he left years before to search for his father. As
Julian crisscrosses the city, fearing the worst, he reconnects with
Sylvia, Simon's companion of many years; Parmenter, his father's
erstwhile business partner and one of the most successful restaurateurs
in New Orleans; and Velmyra, the woman Julian left behind when he moved
to New York. Julian's search for Simon deepens as he finds himself drawn
into the troubled history of Silver Creek, the extravagantly beautiful
piece of land where his father grew up, and closer once again to
Velmyra.
As he tries to come to grips with his father's likely fate, Julian
slowly gains a deeper, richer understanding of his father and the city
he loved so much, while unraveling the mysteries of Silver Creek.
