Down in New Orleans Reflections from a Drowned City

Name: Down in New Orleans Reflections from a Drowned City
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ISBN: 9780520251496

ISBN-10: 0520251490

ISBN-13: 9780520251496

Edition: 2007

Authors: Billy Sothern, Nikki Page

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"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…

Book details

List price: $36.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 8/27/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 348
Size: 0.57" wide x 0.86" long x 0.12" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Prologue


Heading Straight for Us: The Days Before and After Hurricane Katrina


A Man Leaves Home


A Stranger Comes to Town


"This Blues Is Just Too Big"


This Could be Anywhere: Katrina's Immediate Aftermath, Late Summer 2006


A Dollar Short


Poor, Nasty, Brutish, and Short


Not in My Backyard


Left to Die


Bring the War Home


The Dry Run of the Apocalypse


History Repeats Itself


Personals: Departures and Homecomings


Going Home


Oxford Town


I Do Believe I've Had Enough


Everyday Reminders


Against the Ropes: New Orleans's Unlikely Recovery


Second Line


Gideon's Blues


Live from the Circle Bar


Corporate Limits


Fat Tuesday


Hard Lot


La Nueva Orleans


Yours in Struggle


In the Parish


Not Resigned


Epitaph


Notes


Index