Katrina: After the Flood

Katrina: After the Flood

Ten years in the making, Gary Rivlinâ€™s Katrina is â€œa gem of a bookâ€”well-reported, deftly written, tightly focusedâ€¦.a starting point for anyone interested in how The City That Care Forgot develops in its second decade of recoveryâ€ (St. Louis Post-Dispatch).

On August 29, 2005 Hurricane Katrina made landfall in southeast Louisiana. A decade later, journalist Gary Rivlin traces the stormâ€™s immediate damage, the city of New Orleansâ€™s efforts to rebuild itself, and the stormâ€™s lasting effects not just on the areaâ€™s geography and infrastructureâ€”but on the psychic, racial, and social fabric of one of this nationâ€™s great cities.

Much of New Orleans still sat under water the first time Gary Rivlin glimpsed the city after Hurricane Katrina as a staff reporter for The New York Times. Four out of every five houses had been flooded. The deluge had drowned almost every power substation and rendered unusable most of the cityâ€™s water and sewer system. Six weeks after the storm, the city laid off half its workforceâ€”precisely when so many people were turning to its government for help. Meanwhile, cynics both in and out of the Beltway were questioning the use of taxpayer dollars to rebuild a city that sat mostly below sea level. How could the city possibly come back?

â€œDeeply engrossing, well-written, and packed with revealing storiesâ€¦.Rivlinâ€™s exquisitely detailed narrative captures the anger, fatigue, and ambiguity of life during the recovery, the centrality of race at every step along the way, and the generosity of many from elsewhere in the countryâ€ (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). Katrina tells the stories of New Orleanians of all stripes as they confront the aftermath of one of the great tragedies of our age. This is â€œone of the must-reads of the seasonâ€ (The New Orleans Advocate).
Country USA
Manufacturer Simon & Schuster
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2015-08-11
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2015-08-11
Format	Kindle eBook

Katrina: After the Flood

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