Down in New Orleans: Reflections from a Drowned City
by Billy Sothern
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Author: Billy SothernPhotographer: Nikki Page
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-08-27
ISBN: 0520251490
Number of pages: 349
Publisher: University of California Press
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Summary: 5 Stars
The book is amazingly written and inspired me to fall even more in love with New Orleans. The painful facts of what happened after Katrina and the light they shed on the entire situation in this wonderful city historically are painted in wonderful prose and journalistic rigor. The book has different sections; some history, some personal experiences, and some vignettes of people and systems after the storm. The book is a good length to leave one feeling satisfied but not overburdened. Although the subject matter is difficult to swallow and not necessarily pleasant to think about the author inspires hope. Just knowing that people with his unique and informed viewpoint exist and are working hard to make this world a better place made me feel calm and inspired to continue dedicating my life to such work. It is rare in this world to find positivity and Billy Sothern oozes it but not in a traditional sense-his educated cynicism and analytical mind set give him an uncanny grasp on the injustice int he world, but he is smart and positive enough to do something about it. JUST READ THIS BOOK IT'S AMAZING!
Summary of Down in New Orleans: Reflections from a Drowned City
"Post-Katrina New Orleans hasn't been an easy place to live, it hasn't been an easy place to be in love, it hasn't been an easy place to take care of yourself or see the bright side of things." So reflects Billy Sothern in this riveting and unforgettable insider's chronicle of the epic 2005 disaster and the year that followed. Sothern, a death penalty lawyer who with his wife, photographer Nikki Page, arrived in the Crescent City four years ahead of Katrina, delivers a haunting, personal, and quintessentially American story. Writing with an idealist's passion, a journalist's eye for detail, and a lawyer's attention to injustice, Sothern recounts their struggle to come to terms with the enormity of the apocalyptic scenario they managed to live through. He guides the reader on a journey through post-Katrina New Orleans and an array of indelible images: prisoners abandoned in their cells with waters rising, a longtime New Orleans resident of Middle Eastern descent unfairly imprisoned in the days following the hurricane, trailer-bound New Orleanians struggling to make ends meet but celebrating with abandon during Mardi Gras, Latino construction workers living in their trucks. As a lawyer-activist who has devoted his life to procuring justice for some of society's most disenfranchised citizens, Sothern offers a powerful vision of what Katrina has meant to New Orleans and what it still means to the nation at large.State & Local Books
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