The Next Step In The Dance

Tim Gautreaux

Paul Thibodeaux is a handsome laid-back young man married to Colette the most beautiful woman in the small Louisiana town where they grew up. For Paul life is complete with a wife he loves machines to repair and a lively local dance hall. But Colette wants more and when she sets off for California in search of a better life Paul follows her there and back waiting to see if she'll change her mind about him and their life together. How they come to realize the importance of their marriage makes for a novel that is at once an adventure story a love story and an elegiac portrait of a place and a culture rarely explored in contemporary fiction.>