"Atediuvian tales contains five stories of the Stubbs family, the New Orleans clan who adventures Brite has chronicled in her popular Liquor novels and other works. Two more stories revisit the author's fictious alter ego Dr. Brite, the coroner of New Orleans. Completing the book is "The last good of my life," a nonfiction look at the changes the past two years have wroght on Brite, filtered through a reminiscence about a day she spent knocking around Cairns, Australia" -- inside cover.