1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina
by Chris Rose
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Author: Chris RoseEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Published)
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 2007-08-21
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 384
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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Book Review: The single best Katrina book out there.
Summary: 5 Stars
I live in New Orleans, and my wife and I lost everything we owned in Hurricane Katrina. However, we evacuated safely the Saturday before the flood, and so were spared the horror of the flooding and its aftermath. It's a measure of how bad things were around here that we lost every single thing we owned (except for 5 days worth of clothing, and a few toiletries), but we feel like we're some of the lucky ones, because so many people had (and still have) it so much worse. Not to mention, of course, the 1300+ people who died as a result of the failure of the levees.
Since the storm, I have had a semi-obsession with books about Katrina. I have read 6 or 7 so far. And while there are plenty of books that have a lot more actual information about the storm, down to almost minute-by-minute chronologies, there is NO other book that even comes close to this one in terms of describing what it was like to actually live here after Katrina.
Before the storm, I actually didn't read Chris Rose's column in our paper. He wrote mostly humorous pieces that didn't interest me much. After the storm, I was absolutely riveted to his columns as I read them online from Dallas, where we were evacuated to for 4 months. If you want a history of the storm, what happened, when it happened, and why, then buy another book. But if you want to know what people went through AFTER the storm, you won't find a better book than this.
Chris Rose absolutely deserved his Pulitzer nomination.
Summary of 1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina
Dead in Attic is a collection of stories by Times-Picayune columnist Chris Rose, recounting the first harrowing year and a half of life in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Celebrated as a local treasure and heaped with national praise, Rose provides a rollercoaster ride of observation, commentary, emotion, tragedy, and even humor -- in a way that only he could find in a devastated wasteland.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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