Anne Lovett writes good things about Last of the Red Hot Poppas on the Georgia Writers' website:

[I]t’s a delicious gumbo. Take the spirit of A Confederacy of Dunces, blend with a murdered Louisiana governor and a steel magnolia First Lady, then throw in a few corrupt politicians, the Mafia, zydeco music, a canny African-American undertaker, an Assistant Attorney General who’s trying to do what’s right, and a young woman trying to come to terms with her growing-up in the bayou with a stepfather who’s built a 60-foot tall statue of Jesus. Then thicken with a serious message about vested interests and the environment. You might come away feeling you understand a little more about what went wrong during the Katrina crisis.