A Season of Night: New Orleans Life after Katrina
A Season of Night: New Orleans Life after Katrina
University Press of Mississippi | July 1, 2008 | ISBN-10: 1934110914 | 176 pages | PDF | 1.74 MB
University Press of Mississippi | July 1, 2008 | ISBN-10: 1934110914 | 176 pages | PDF | 1.74 MB
For many months after Hurricane Katrina, life in New Orleans meant negotiating streets strewn with debris and patrolled by the United States Army. Most of the city was without power. Emptied and ruined houses, businesses, schools, and churches stretched for miles through once thriving neighborhoods.
Almost immediately, however, die-hard New Orleanians began a homeward journey. A travelogue through this surreal landscape, A Season of Night: New Orleans Life after Katrina offers a deeply intimate, firsthand account of that homecoming. After the floodwaters drained, author Ian McNulty returned to live on the second floor of his wrecked house without electricity or neighbors. For months his sanity was writing this book on a laptop by candlelight.