MADELEINE- NEW QUERY
MADELEINE
Journals sealed in an estate until the year 2017, notebooks of primary materials thrown into the fire, secret codes concealed within a novel, and two women trying to make sense of it all. One from New Jersey and one from the Pyrenees, both reading and interpreting words on a page, and taking them to heart. MADELEINE, the story of memories lost and found.
And in the center of it all, Marcel Proust himself, a French Rip van Winkle come back to celebrate the centennial of his rise to fame, the publication of Swann in Love. He takes up residence in kooky grad-school dropout CC’s bed, and at her French bakery, and refuses to leave until she subjects herself to the systematic deconstruction of her own crumbled life. Which she can only complete after fleeing to France behind her husband’s back and meeting up with down-to earth Magalie, a descendant of Proust’s old lover, over tea. And over the pages of a precious journal recounting life’s creative travails, and love’s unaccountable jealousies.
We dip into the cup of tea and the memories rise unbidden. We dip into a novel and the thoughts stir up deeds and desires. MADELEINE, the story of what happens then.
PAPA LEGBA AND THE SABBATH QUEEN
PAPA LEGBA AND THE SABBATH QUEEN recasts the Sabbath Queen as a young insolent teen who rebels against the status quo. Only difference being that Daddy is The Ineffable One, the He/She who has no End, a.k.a God. Daddy isn't keen on Maya’s mystical persuasions and kaballah interests. She runs off and meets Papa Legba, voodoo gatekeeper from the dark and fertile land of Haiti, and they flirt like hell, take in libations and a sacrifice the way you’d take in dinner and a movie.
When Daddy catches her messing around with this Papa guy he banishes her down to earth to live with a nice boring Jewish family in the suburbs of Philadelphia, strips her of her powers. But you can be sure she's going to go get mystical and somehow find Papa Legba no matter the odds. And Papa’s going to banish himself in sympathy, drag himself to a land he knows nothing about, America, and work his way up in the bowels of the kitchen and against all number of odds—Aids, prejudice, poverty—to reclaim her.
It’s a poker game, the stakes higher than the clouds in heaven and more turbulent than the storms at sea, with all the relatives putting in their two cents-- Moses, Abraham and Rachel, Iwa, Erzulie and Papa Ghe. And the angels working overtime You can’t keep star-crossed deities from the most mystical experience of all-- love.
Journals sealed in an estate until the year 2017, notebooks of primary materials thrown into the fire, secret codes concealed within a novel, and two women trying to make sense of it all. One from New Jersey and one from the Pyrenees, both reading and interpreting words on a page, and taking them to heart. MADELEINE, the story of memories lost and found.
And in the center of it all, Marcel Proust himself, a French Rip van Winkle come back to celebrate the centennial of his rise to fame, the publication of Swann in Love. He takes up residence in kooky grad-school dropout CC’s bed, and at her French bakery, and refuses to leave until she subjects herself to the systematic deconstruction of her own crumbled life. Which she can only complete after fleeing to France behind her husband’s back and meeting up with down-to earth Magalie, a descendant of Proust’s old lover, over tea. And over the pages of a precious journal recounting life’s creative travails, and love’s unaccountable jealousies.
We dip into the cup of tea and the memories rise unbidden. We dip into a novel and the thoughts stir up deeds and desires. MADELEINE, the story of what happens then.
PAPA LEGBA AND THE SABBATH QUEEN
PAPA LEGBA AND THE SABBATH QUEEN recasts the Sabbath Queen as a young insolent teen who rebels against the status quo. Only difference being that Daddy is The Ineffable One, the He/She who has no End, a.k.a God. Daddy isn't keen on Maya’s mystical persuasions and kaballah interests. She runs off and meets Papa Legba, voodoo gatekeeper from the dark and fertile land of Haiti, and they flirt like hell, take in libations and a sacrifice the way you’d take in dinner and a movie.
When Daddy catches her messing around with this Papa guy he banishes her down to earth to live with a nice boring Jewish family in the suburbs of Philadelphia, strips her of her powers. But you can be sure she's going to go get mystical and somehow find Papa Legba no matter the odds. And Papa’s going to banish himself in sympathy, drag himself to a land he knows nothing about, America, and work his way up in the bowels of the kitchen and against all number of odds—Aids, prejudice, poverty—to reclaim her.
It’s a poker game, the stakes higher than the clouds in heaven and more turbulent than the storms at sea, with all the relatives putting in their two cents-- Moses, Abraham and Rachel, Iwa, Erzulie and Papa Ghe. And the angels working overtime You can’t keep star-crossed deities from the most mystical experience of all-- love.
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