Louisiana

NOLADawn has a couple of suggestions: "For Louisiana how about No Place, Louisiana by Martin Pousson, or you could always go the traditional route and do Tennesee Williams' Streetcar Named Desire."

Let's put them both up for consideration.

In No Place, Louisiana, Nita is sixteen, working in a diner, putting up with the coarse advances of her stepfather, and living on the edge of Jennings, Louisiana, when her brother sets her up on a blind date with Louis Toussaint. He is rude and cheap, Nita thinks, not exactly what she has in mind. But when he offers an engagement ring, Nita accepts what she believes is her ticket out of the place, the life she already feels is stifling her. She deserves better, and Louis can give it to her, if only he will work hard enough.

NOLADawn's review of No Place, Louisiana.

Streetcar Named Desire is the story of Blanche DuBois, fading and desperate, and how her sensuous and brutal brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski, pushes her over the edge. One online reviewer says no one can be considered well-read without having read this classic.