Events

Save Our Cemeteries and Garden District Book Shop welcome Paula Morris.  Paula will discuss and sign her book Ruined.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books. With this haunting love letter to New Orleans, Morris makes her YA debut, telling the story of 15-year-old Rebecca Brown.  Rebecca a proud New Yorker is sent to live with a family friend while her father travels overseas. Ostracized as an outsider, Rebecca struggles to fit in and cope with her new surroundings.  When she befriends Lisette, a ghost who has haunted the cemetery since her mysterious death 155 years earlier, Rebecca is drawn into an eerie story of betrayal, loss, old curses, and family secrets.   From Mardi Gras rituals to voodoo spells, Hurricane Katrina to jazz, this is a story that could only be told in New Orleans.