Word: mayfairs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lasher, Rice picks up the narrative thread left hanging at the end of The Witching Hour. At the end of The Witching Hour, Rice situates the reader in present-day New Orleans after a global jaunt through time tracking the incestuous Mayfair family of witches from their roots in Scotland to the powerful, respected family living in modern day New Orleans. In the opening chapters of Lasher, the heir to the Mayfair throne--Rowan Mayfair--has been spirited away from New Orleans by the demon Lasher. The whole of the novel is then taken up in the relentless pursuit...
...addition, the eroticism and sexuality which seem to come so easily in other Rice novels appears forced in Lasher. Thirteen-year-old Mona Mayfair, the heir to the Mayfair line should Rowan Mayfair die, displays a precocity beyond her years evident in her sexual encounters with Rowan's husband Michael. In a narrative account of a family based on incestuous relations, Mona's sexuality does not seem out of place. After all, the Mayfair line is founded on a series of bizarre couplings between relatives and between humans and spirits all in the name of the Mayfair family...
Thousands of visitors flocked to Harvard Square's eight annual Mayfair yesterday afternoon, roaming the streets where more than 100 artisans and cooks hawked their wares...