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1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina by Chris Rose (English) Paperback Book

Description: 1 Dead in Attic by Chris Rose "The columns in this book were previously published in The Times-picayune"--Title page verso. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description With a new foreword by the author--Chris Roses New York Times bestselling collection: "A gripping book about lifes challenges in post-Katrina New Orleans...packed with heart, honesty, and wit" (New Republic). Celebrated as a local classic and heaped with national praise, 1 Dead in Attic is a brilliant collection of columns by an award-winning Times-Picayune journalist chronicling the horrific damage and aftermath wrought by Hurricane Katrina in 2006. "Frank and compelling...vivid and invaluable" (Booklist), it is a roller coaster ride through a devastated American wasteland as it groans for rebirth. Full of the emotion, tragedy and even humor--which has made Chris Rose a favorite son and the voice of a lost city--these are the stories of the dead and the living, of survivors and believers, of destruction and recovery, and of hope and despair. With photographs by British photojournalist Charlie Varley, 1 Dead in Attic captures New Orleans caught between an old era and a new, New Orleans in its most desperate time, as it struggled out of floodwaters and willed itself back to life. Author Biography Chris Rose is a columnist for The Times-Picayune in New Orleans, an essayist for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, and a frequent commentator for National Public Radios Morning Edition. In 2006, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Commentary in recognition of his Katrina columns and was awarded a share in the Times-Picayune staffs Pulitzer for Public Service. Rose lives in New Orleans with his three children. Review "The most engaging of the Katrina books...packed with more heart, honesty, and wit...Rose was more interested in telling the searing stories of his shattered city than assigning the blame for its demise..."-- Michael Grunwald, The New Republic"The Crescent Citys bard"-- Harry Shearer, The Huffington Post"These are impressionistic cries of pain and mordant humor...they so aptly mirrored the sense of surreal dislocation experienced by New Orleanians that they turned Rose into a voice of the tortured city."-- Ken Ringle, The Washington Post Book World Review Quote "These are impressionistic cries of pain and mordant humor...they so aptly mirrored the sense of surreal dislocation experienced by New Orleanians that they turned Rose into a voice of the tortured city." -- Ken Ringle, The Washington Post Book World Excerpt from Book 1 Dead in Attic Facing the Unknown 9/1/05 I got out. Im mystified by the notion that so many people didnt even try; but thats another story for another time. We left Saturday, my wife, kids, and me. We went first to Picayune, Mississippi, thinking that a Category 3 storm would flood New Orleans and knock out power, but that wed be dry and relatively comfortable in the piney woods while the city dried out. Sunday morning, of course, Katrina was a massive red blob on our TV screens--now a Cat 5--so we packed up and left again. We left my in-laws behind in Picayune. They wouldnt come with us. Self-sufficient country folk; sometimes you cant tell em nothing. We dont know what happened to them. My wifes dad and her brother and their families: No word. Only hope. Like so many people around the country wondering what happened to those still unaccounted for, we just dont know. Thats the hardest part. If you take the images youve seen on TV and picked up off the radio and Internet, and you try to apply what you know to the people and places you dont know about, well, the mind starts racing, assumptions are made, and, well . . . it consumes you. The kids ask you questions. You dont have answers. Sometimes they look at me, and though they dont say it, I can see theyre wondering: Daddy, where are you? My six-year-old daughter, shes onto this thing. What is she thinking? We spent Sunday night in a no-tell motel in a forgotten part of downtown Vicksburg; a neighborhood teetering between a familiar antiquated charm and hopeless decay. Truth is, it called to mind my beloved New Orleans. Most of the folks in the hotel seemed to live there permanently, and it had a hard-luck feel to it. It was the kind of place where your legs start itching in the bed and you think the worst and you dont want your kids to touch the carpet or the tub and we huddled together and I read them to sleep. Monday morning, my wifes aunt told us they had a generator in Baton Rouge. As Katrina marched north and east, we bailed on our sullen little hotel and drove down along the western ridge of the storm, mostly alone on the road. Gas was no problem. We had catfish and pulled pork in a barbecue joint in Natchez, and the folks there--everyone we have met along our three-day journey--said the same thing: Good luck, folks. We love your city. Take care of it for us. Oh, my city. We have spent hours and hours listening to the radio. Image upon image piling up in your head. What about school? What about everyones jobs? Did all our friends get out? Are there still trees on the streetcar line? What will our economy be like with no visitors? How many are dead? Do I have a roof? Have the looters found me yet? When can we go home? As I said, it consumes you as you sit helplessly miles from home, unable to help anyone, unable to do anything. If I could, what Id do first is hurt the looters. Id hurt them bad. But you have to forget all that. You have to focus on what is at hand, what you can reach, and when you have three little kids lost at sea, they are whats at hand and what you can reach. I took them to a playground in Baton Rouge Tuesday afternoon. Theyd been bottled up for days. Finally unleashed, they ran, they climbed, they fell down, they fought, they cried, they made me laugh, they drove me crazy; they did the things that make them kids. It grounds you. You take a breath. You count to ten. Maybe--under the circumstances--you go to twenty or thirty this time. And tonight, well just read them to sleep again. We have several books with us because--and this is rich--we brought on our evacuation all the clothes and things we planned to bring on a long-weekend trip that we were going to take over Labor Day weekend. To the beach. To Fort Morgan, right at the mouth of Mobile Bay. Man. Instead of that, I put on my suntan lotion and went out in the yard of the house where were staying in Baton Rouge and I raked a massive pile of leaves and limbs from the yard and swept the driveway. Doing yard work and hitting the jungle gym on the Day After. Pretending life goes on. Just trying to stay busy. Just trying not to think. Just trying not to fail, really. Gotta keep moving. Details ISBN1501125370 Author Chris Rose Pages 384 Publisher Simon & Schuster Edition Description Reissue Language English ISBN-10 1501125370 ISBN-13 9781501125379 Media Book Format Paperback Short Title 1 DEAD IN ATTIC Illustrations Yes Year 2015 Publication Date 2015-08-04 Subtitle After Katrina Imprint Simon & Schuster DEWEY 976.335064 Audience General UK Release Date 2015-08-04 Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States US Release Date 2015-08-04 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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