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1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina
1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina | Chris Rose
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Originally a self-published sensation by a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, "1 Dead in Attic "captures the heart and soul of New Orleans in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. "1 Dead in Attic" is a collection of stories by "Times-Picayune" columnist 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. "1 Dead in Attic" freeze-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 itself back to life."
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Cosmos_Moon_River
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1. Nope, grew up in Green Bay, WI, have been in New Orleans for 12 years.
2. Grateful for a short work week. Friday off for the holiday 🇺🇸🎆

#ThankfulThursday
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JoScho Thanks for the tag 🥰 4y
britt_brooke New Orleans is quite a change from Green Bay! We lived in Milwaukee for 3 years and really loved Wisconsin, but not so much the winters. 4y
Cosmos_Moon_River @britt_brooke I lived in Milwaukee for a while. I don‘t mind the winters, but the mild winters here are more convenient than shoveling a car out 🤗 4y
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AmberWB
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New Orleans is one of my favorite places in the world. I had visited a few times prior to Katrina. So when the storm and the levees broke, so did my heart. The school I had been teaching at took a group of kids down a year later to help rebuild in Mississippi, and spent a day in New Orleans. This book contains essays by Chris Rose that were published in the N.O. Times Picayune the year or so after Katrina. Reading this and viewing 👇👇👇

AmberWB When the Levees Broke by Spike Lee, really illustrates the full horror of the storm and failures of government from the top down. (edited) 5y
ljuliel That‘s a good one to mention, as it‘s been recent enough that everyone remembers it happening. I‘d think if you were already familiar with the state , then went to help, it‘d hit home a lot harder. 5y
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AmberWB
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1. 1 Dead in Attic- it was a series of essays that had been published in the Times-Picayune in the weeks following Hurricane Katrina.
2. Probably A Cook‘s Tour
3. Any fresh produce from the farmer‘s market
4. I haven‘t finished it yet, but The Great Alone has been excellent.

#weekendchat
@CSeydel

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swishandflick
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Has anyone read this collection of stories? I kept coming back to it but could already feel my heart breaking ⚜️

OhNoMersault Not ready to read it. Still too fresh after 12 years. 7y
MonicaLoves2Read I haven't heard of it. Is it a true crime or what? 7y
swishandflick @OhNoMersault Oh man, I can only imagine! 7y
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swishandflick @Monica5 Not true crime, no. A collection of stories written by a New Orleans native on the effect of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath on the local community 7y
MonicaLoves2Read @swishandflick Thanks. Sounds interesting. I will have to look for it. 7y
DyAnne I read it years ago. I remember it being very powerful. 7y
Cathythoughts If it‘s heart breaking it must be powerful stuff 👍👍👍stacking 7y
Cosmos_Moon_River I read this after my first trip to New Orleans in 2007. I moved here I 2008. It is a devastating book, but it happened. 4y
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Qemorio
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On this 11th anniversary of Katrina.

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