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MaMa Fontaine stirs gumbo in a big rusty pot telling me that joy is squashing a pregnant roach. She is a jailbird, an ex-lounge singer, and a literary agent (who won’t sign me). She wonders if it is just some quirk, or does insanity truly run parallel to our family. I count the sky’s stars…