Tuesday in Mobile

Our family bible dates back to the 1700s. It’s an imposing tome, leather-bound, lavishly illustrated, and weighing around ten pounds. There are pages where births, deaths, and marriages were recorded over the years. Some of the entries provide information that would have otherwise been lost. Others bring up more questions than they answer. The most chilling records a man’s death by hanging in 1860.

When you ask anyone in the family about it, they’ll tell you that Felix Saxon was “the horse thief,” as if this fact explains the grim circumstances of his death.

Tuesday in Mobile was inspired by the horse thief in our family history. We changed the date of his death, but the place became central to the narrative because of the mystic societies established in 1800s Mobile. The only thing we know about Felix Saxon is the one thing he had to keep hidden. He operated in secrecy, just like Mobile’s mystic societies. But every year on Mardi Gras, society members struck up the band and paraded through the streets. What happens when something shrouded in mystery becomes a public spectacle? What happens when our most private selves are dragged out into the light?

Soft Cover
Dust Jacket
Staple Bound
40 pages
Edition of 25