The Weight of Ash and Prayer

In a house lined with silence and cedar, generations of women buried what they could not say.

Spanning the cane fields and bayous of South Louisiana, from the Civil War to the present day, The Weight of Ash and Prayer traces a family’s legacy of memory, silence, and quiet resistance.

When Sylvie Rose Broussard agrees to help her young niece with a school genealogy project, she expects a simple task. But what begins in church ledgers and courthouse archives slowly draws her back to the long-quiet house her family once inhabited, and into a story nearly lost to time.

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