I didn't rec it, but I do rather love Hambly's Fever Season.
It's only nominally about epidemics, but it has some fantastic descriptions of an empty, miasmal New Orleans, where death stalks every alleyway.
And then bring in Madam Lalaurie, the convoluted racial and cultural standards in New Orleans at that time, and the wonderful character of Benjamin January, and it's wonderful.
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Date: 2009-06-09 08:18 pm (UTC)It's only nominally about epidemics, but it has some fantastic descriptions of an empty, miasmal New Orleans, where death stalks every alleyway.
And then bring in Madam Lalaurie, the convoluted racial and cultural standards in New Orleans at that time, and the wonderful character of Benjamin January, and it's wonderful.