Mercy Parish

South Louisiana · Fall 1995 · Insurance investigator

Mercy Parish, Louisiana, the autumn of 1995: cane fields to the north, the cranes of a fabrication yard on the bayou to the south, live oaks and moss over the old houses between, and the marsh where the blacktop runs out. You are a claims investigator for a Baton Rouge life insurance company, sent down whenever someone dies with a policy the company will not pay on paper alone.