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This is an American novel of formed chaos playfully enacting the centrality of language in late twentieth-century art and life through the voices of two women steeped in Western traditions, one telling the story of her restoration of an ante-bellum house on the Florida Gulf Coast, the other faithfully recording it but running culturally wild in the process.In both literal and extended senses, The Restorationist is a mystery, with attendant baf...

Through the vodun sanctuary kept by Frances Boullet, her diary, and the novel flow tales of trading, piracy, colonization, slave life at a plantation, an Indian bride's miraculous legacy from the time of the Seminole Wars, Haitian uprisings and inter-American conflict, and murders, births, and hauntings in Reconstruction times and after.

This is an American novel of formed chaos playfully enacting the centrality of language in late twentieth-century art and life through the voices of two women steeped in Western traditions, one telling the story of her restoration of an antebellum house on the Florida Gulf Coast, the other faithfully recording it but running culturally wild in the process. In both literal and extended senses, The Restorationist is a mystery, with attendant baf...