1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina by Chris Rose
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Book Reviews of 1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina
Book 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.
Book Review: Death & Distruction: The Katrina Story
Summary: 5 Stars
I am a voracious reader, and if a book grabs my interest & attention, I usually read a good book in 1 to 2 days. This book is exhausting; it took me 4 settings to complete it. Why? This book is excellent & captures the true misery & humman impact of this deadly storm. The author puts his articles for a newspaper in one book and so truly rivets the reader, as his accounts of life after Katrina conveys the awful sense of depression and calamity, while also including the stories of every day Americans, who put their lives aside, to serve the people in the Gulf coast area. I laughed and cried as I read his stories. susanfBook Review: Heart Rendering Account of Post Katrina
Summary: 4 Stars
1 Dead in Attic by Chris Rose. The title is taken from writing on a flood destroyed house, indicating yet another victim of the Hurricane Katrina New Orleans tragedy .
This book, written by an award-winning Times Picayune columnist, contains one-chapter short stories that are simply incredible.
Rather than outline what lead to Katrina, he focuses on the aftermath of the hurricane. His heart rendering account of a year and a half after is so well written that at times I laughed and others I cried. His pithy, heart breaking and poignant tales of the people who are the soul of New Orleans will haunt me for a long time. I laughed at the tale of refrigerator wars; I cried for a city trying to re-claim itself.
After reading this I feel as though I've walked the streets of New Orleans, gleaned some knowledge of what makes the city tick -- the good (those stubborn hold outs who want to rebuild and renew) , the bad (the local politicians, the Army Core of Engineers and the ineffective mayor) and the ugly (very nasty culture that loots, robs, rapes and waits for handouts and blames all others.)