Download or read book Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery written by John Gregory Brown and published by Quill. This book was released on 1995 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moving back and forth in time from the 1930s to the 1960s to the present, this luminous first novel uncovers the heartbreaking legacy of the Eagen family of New Orleans, Irish Catholics of mixed blood in a city where race defines fate. A haunting novel of family loyalty and relations between the races.