“Should the Waters Take Us,” by Stephanie Soileau, Doubleday, 336 pages.In “Last One Out Shut Off the Lights,” her wickedly titled 2020 short story collection that didn’t receive its just laurels — perhaps blame the pandemic — Stephanie Soileau offered a fiercely piercing portrait of life in Louisiana’s southwest coastal parishes. There, as in real life, the area’s subservience to the petrochemical industry gloomily bobbed in the background. Families frolicked on beaches within sight of inshore oil rigs, formaldehyde-infused interior furnishings welcomed home workers forced to remove their toxin-tainted uniforms before settling in for the evening. In “Should the Waters...
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