1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina by Chris Rose
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Book Summary Author: Chris Rose Edition: 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 Reviews of the 1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina
Customer Review: a disturbing, eye-opening, and beautiful read
Summary: 5 Stars
Living in Kansas City, Missouri, I wasn't too far from Katrina-ravaged New Orleans, but I was far enough away that I (like many, many others) had no clue what was really going on down there in the days and months after the hurricane. I picked this book up while wandering through a boutique in the French Quarter and purchased it because I wanted to better educate myself on what "really" happened. Or, at least as much as I could learn by reading a paperback four and a half years after the event.
I couldn't put the book down the entire trip! It was beautiful, disturbing, disgusting, stunning, funny, shocking, and educational. I won't ever say that I now know how it felt to be there, no one ever could unless they were, yet I now feel much more emotionally connected to the storm and the aftermath than I did before. Chris writes in such a way as to allow the reader to follow in his footsteps - to see what he sees and smell what he smells and feel what he feels. While my emotions were arguably an insignificant fraction of what he and the rest of New Orleans went through, they were emotions nonetheless. Emotions and a bit more knowledge about what did "really" happen.
And that was all that I wanted - just a sliver of understanding. Thumbs-up, Chris, thumbs-up.