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About This Book
ISBN13: 9781416552987 
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They are stories of the dead and the living, stories of survivors and believers, stories of hope and despair. And stories about refrigerators.
Dead in Attic freeze-frames New Orleans, caught between an old era and a new, during its most desperate time, as it struggles out of the floodwaters and wills itself back to life.
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About the Author
Table of Contents
Contents
Introduction
Who We Are
Early Days
Facing the Unknown
The First Time Back
Survivors
Life in the Surreal City
Hope
Rita Takes Aim
The Empty City
God and Strippers
The More Things Change
Enough to Feed an Army
Tough Times in the Blue Tarp Town
Blue Roof Blues
The Smell
The Elephant Men
Mad City
1 Dead in Attic
Despair
The Ties That Bind
My Introduction to New Orleans
The Funky Butt
The Hurricane Kids
Traveling Man
Have Barbie, Will Travel
Prep Boys and Jesuits
Good-bye
Groundhog Day
Coming Home
Life in the Refrigerator City
Civil Unrest
Refrigerator Town
Lurching Toward Babylon
The Cat Lady
Caving In
The Magnet Man
The Last Ride
Lights in the City
Let the Good Times Roll
Our Katrina Christmas
Tears, Fears, and a New Year
Misadventures in the Chocolate City
Chocolate City
Tutti-Frutti
He Had a Dream
He's Picking the Pairs for Nola's Ark
Rider on the Storm
Car 54, Where Are You?
Not in My Pothole
Survive This
Love Among the Ruins
September Never Ends
The Muddy Middle Ground
Misery in the Melting Pot
The End of the World
A Huck Finn Kind of Life
Our Very Scary Summer
Songs in the Key of Strife
The End of the Line
We Raze, and Raise, and Keep Pushing Forward
Echoes of Katrina in the Country
The Purple Upside-Down Car
Second Line, Same Verse
Don't Mess with Mrs. Rose
Shooting the Rock
The City That Hair Forgot
A Rapturous Day in the Real World
Big Daddy No Fun
Peace Among the Ruins
Artful Practicality
"She Rescued My Heart"
Miss Ellen Deserved Better
Things Worth Fighting For
Rebirth at the Maple Leaf
Melancholy Reveler
They Don't Get Mardi Gras, and They Never Will
Reality Fest
Love Fest
O Brothers, Where Be Y'all?
Funeral for a Friend
Thanks, We Needed That
Say What's So, Joe
A Night to Remember
Eternal Dome Nation
Falling Down
On the Inside Looking Out
A City on Hold
A Tough Nut to Crack
Hell and Back
Letters from the Edge
Where We Go From Here
Children of the Storm, It's Time to Represent
Thank You, Whoever You Are
A New Dawn
Acknowledgments
What Our Readers Are Saying
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Average customer rating based on 2 comments:
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elle, August 28, 2007 (view all comments by elle)
Kay comments that this book should be required reading for everyone who loves New Orleans; actually, I think it should be required reading for everyone in the U.S. In fact, I think it's more important that people who don't love New Orleans should have to read it so they can understand what happened in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Chris Rose wrote an entertainment column for the local newspaper before the storm. I really didn't care for his column at all. His writing was fluff - self-involved, pompous, and arrogant - mostly about spotting celebrities in the city.
However, after Hurricane Katrina he stepped up to the plate as a writer and journalist like I've never experienced before. His writings tapped into and perfectly captured the exact feelings that every New Orleanian was having. It's an incredibly heartfelt and moving collection of essays.
Trust me, as a New Orleanian, I've read every post-Katrina book out there. This one is hands-down the best. Buy copies for everyone you know. It's that good and it's that important that the rest of the country understand more about our country's worst natural disaster in history.
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kay, August 22, 2007 (view all comments by kay)
Chris Rose gives voice to the voiceless and powerless city and her people devastated by Hurricane Katrina. This collection of columns is a love song to a city that comes palpably alive through his words. By turns hearbreaking and uplifting, it is required reading for anyone who loves New Orleans.
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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9781416552987
- Subtitle:
- After Katrina
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Simon and Schuster
- Subject:
- United States - General
- Subject:
- Natural Disasters
- Subject:
- United States - 21st Century
- Subject:
- United States - State & Local - South
- Subject:
- Hurricanes
- Edition Description:
- Trade paper
- Publication Date:
- 20070821
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Grade Level:
- General/trade
- Language:
- English
- Pages:
- 384
- Dimensions:
- 8.44x5.52x.98 in. .79 lbs.
