A collection of short stories about some of the colorful character types who inhabit the Bywater, an old offbeat neighborhood in New Orleans. Zookeepers, winos, clowns, gangsters, coffin makers, drug addicts, danglers, vigilantes, schizophrenics, second-liners, ragamuffins, rats, mambos and tallbikers lurk in the back alleys, street corners and railroad tracks of this anthology.
(Fiction.)