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1 Dead in Attic After Katrina

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ISBN-10: 1416552987

ISBN-13: 9781416552987

Edition: 2007

Authors: Chris Rose

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Dead in Atticis a collection of stories byTimes-Picayunecolumnist Chris Rose, recounting the first harrowing year and a half of life in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Celebrated as a local treasure and heaped with national praise, Rose provides a rollercoaster ride of observation, commentary, emotion, tragedy, and even humor -- in a way that only he could find in a devastated wasteland. They are stories of the dead and the living, stories of survivors and believers, stories of hope and despair. And stories about refrigerators. Dead in Atticfreeze-frames New Orleans, caught between an old era and a new, during its most desperate time, as it struggles out of the floodwaters and wills…    
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Book details

List price: $17.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Publication date: 8/21/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.40" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Introduction
Who We Are
Early Days
Facing the Unknown
The First Time Back
Survivors
Life in the Surreal City
Hope
Rita Takes Aim
The Empty City
God and Strippers
The More Things Change
Enough to Feed an Army
Tough Times in the Blue Tarp Town
Blue Roof Blues
The Smell
The Elephant Men
Mad City
1 Dead in Attic
Despair
The Ties That Bind
My Introduction to New Orleans
The Funky Butt
The Hurricane Kids
Traveling Man
Have Barbie, Will Travel
Prep Boys and Jesuits
Good-bye
Groundhog Day
Coming Home
Life in the Refrigerator City
Civil Unrest
Refrigerator Town
Lurching Toward Babylon
The Cat Lady
Caving In
The Magnet Man
The Last Ride
Lights in the City
Let the Good Times Roll
Our Katrina Christmas
Tears, Fears, and a New Year
Misadventures in the Chocolate City
Chocolate City
Tutti-Frutti
He Had a Dream
He's Picking the Pairs for Nola's Ark
Rider on the Storm
Car 54, Where Are You?
Not in My Pothole
Survive This
Love Among the Ruins
September Never Ends
The Muddy Middle Ground
Misery in the Melting Pot
The End of the World
A Huck Finn Kind of Life
Our Very Scary Summer
Songs in the Key of Strife
The End of the Line
We Raze, and Raise, and Keep Pushing Forward
Echoes of Katrina in the Country
The Purple Upside-Down Car
Second Line, Same Verse
Don't Mess with Mrs. Rose
Shooting the Rock
The City That Hair Forgot
A Rapturous Day in the Real World
Big Daddy No Fun
Peace Among the Ruins
Artful Practicality
"She Rescued My Heart"
Miss Ellen Deserved Better
Things Worth Fighting For
Rebirth at the Maple Leaf
Melancholy Reveler
They Don't Get Mardi Gras, and They Never Will
Reality Fest
Love Fest
O Brothers, Where Be Y'all?
Funeral for a Friend
Thanks, We Needed That
Say What's So, Joe
A Night to Remember
Eternal Dome Nation
Falling Down
On the Inside Looking Out
A City on Hold
A Tough Nut to Crack
Hell and Back
Letters from the Edge
Where We Go From Here
Children of the Storm, It's Time to Represent
Thank You, Whoever You Are
A New Dawn
Acknowledgments
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